"When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths
of Homeric profundity. Two cliches make us laugh but a hundred cliches
move us because we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves,
celebrating a reunion . . . Just as the extreme of pain meets sensual pleasure,
and the extreme of perversion borders on mystical energy, so too the extreme
of banality allows us to catch a glimpse of the Sublime."
— Umberto Eco, “Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage” (1984)
from Travels in Hyperreality.