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But then again maybe it's some time-honored cultural tradition, like the blind seer or the wise father who has a special bond with the teenage daughter in 80s movies.
You just reminded me of this quote from Aleister Crowley's "New Comment."
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Harpocrates, the `Babe in the Egg of Blue', is not merely the God of Silence in a conventional sense. He represents the Higher Self, the Holy Guardian Angel. The connexion is with the symbolism of the Dwarf in Mythology. He contains everything in Himself, but is unmanifested.
It brings an image of Mario always taking in and sustaining the things that surround him, whether by listening or in his film projects, with the implication that even they are not scripted by him.