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This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here on Earth. As you can see, it's constantly growing and moving as people invent new tales to tell or find new things to believe. The older strands move out to become these spirals, where things tend to become quite crude and dangerous. They've hardened off, you see.

This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here on Earth. As you can see, it's constantly growing and moving as people invent new tales to tell or find new things to believe. The older strands move out to become these spirals, where things tend to become quite crude and dangerous. They've hardened off, you see.

Approximate author period: c. 1972 AD · modern

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Diana Wynne Jones
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Approximate author period: c. 1972 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1934 to 2011; Wikidata Q236829, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q236829 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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