"Social Dramas and Ritual Metaphors" by Victor Turner:

• "[Liminality/communitas as] the threshold of cultural transition, another step in the cycle/process of ineffably perpetual cultural rebirth!" (p. 112)
• "oh my god yes let's go let's do this" (p. 115)

"Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities" by Marshall Sahlins:

• "1) First mythical background the provides a stable (seemingly) system within which individual events are contextualized and, therefore, given meaning/significance, 2) event seen as repetition of past mythical event and, therefore, significant on a metaphorical level in its relation to what is presupposed as initial historical event/myth the constitutes macro structure*" (p. 11)