“In the words of the Old French text of The Quest of the Holy Grail, if he wants to succeed, he must enter the forest “at a point that he, himself, had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path.” The wasteland in the grail legend is a place where people live inauthentic lives, blindly following the norms of their society and doing only what other people expect.”

The Spiral Staircase, P. 268