When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clich?s make us laugh but a hundred clich?s moves us because we sense dimly that the clich?s 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.