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Jackson Adams
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Great Sources of Allegory, Part 1: Joseph Campbell
Allegory has deep roots, perhaps as old as story itself. There is something in prehistoric cave paintings, for instance, that points at two meanings, one literal and one figurative.
This brings us to a first figure, Joseph Campbell. Many are probably familiar with Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces, but his thinking goes much further than that. Campbell’s self-set task was to connect the meanin
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“Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.”
― The Burning Secret and other stories
― The Burning Secret and other stories
“Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.”
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“Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.”
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“When I was a child I truly loved:
Unthinking love as calm and deep
As the North Sea. But I have lived,
And now I do not sleep.”
― Grendel
Unthinking love as calm and deep
As the North Sea. But I have lived,
And now I do not sleep.”
― Grendel
“They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction.
'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.”
― Grendel
'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.”
― Grendel
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