The abyss of pain calls for regrouping, rebuilding. As I bite down, trying to fight through the agony, I remember that I did not give a complete picture of how the Monomyth applies to probably one of the greatest mythical heroes of the modern age (especially as Richard Donner tells it):
SUPERMAN
It is personal.
I took on this pain, so my father would have the will to live, to even become my father in the first place. (See
The son becomes the father…
and
…the father becomes the son.
for the personal connections)