Barthes on Myth (contrast for us):

“Myth, close to what Durkheimian sociology calls a ‘collective representation’, can be read in the anonymous utterances of the press, advertising, mass consumer goods; it is something socially determined, a ‘reflection’. (165)

“Contemporary myth is discontinuous. It is no longer expressed in long fixed narratives but only in ‘discourse’; at most, it is a phraseology, a corpus of phrases (of stereotypes); myth disappears, but leaving–so much the more insidious–the mythical.” (165)

“the mythical is present everywhere sentences are turned, stories are told (in all senses of the two expressions): from inner speech to conversation, from newspaper article to political sermon, from novel…to advertising image” (169).

“Change the Object Itself: Mythology Today” (1971). Image-Music-Text

Rilke’s concept of “the Open” is the immanence of nature, manifest within all beings: “Mightn’t
there be a point where space is at once intimacy and exteriority, a space which, outside, would in itself be spiritual intimacy which, in us, would be the reality of the outdoors, such that there we would be within ourselves outside in the intimacy and in the intimate vastness of that outside?” (136).

– Blanchot, The Space of Literature

Helpful description of Tayo in Ceremony?

Blanchot: certain character in Kafka’s The Castle “is outside salvation, he belongs to exile, that region where not only is he away from home, but away from himself.
He is in the outside itself—a realm absolutely bereft of intimacy where beings seem absent and where
everything one thinks one grasps slips away” (77).

– Blanchot, The Space of Literature
 

This insight helps us escape the system of judgment, in favor of an affirmation of Life: third apparatus.