Check out "The Hero With a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell. George Lucas credited the book as inspiration for Star Wars. You can google it too and get a nice summary at Wikipedia.
yeah. great book. Campbell was quite a thinker, perhaps among the first, in the modern age, at least, to show the connections of ideas/stories across culture and time.
also, The Power of Myth, by Campbell, does a similar thing-- traces the common stories through every culture--the cowboy/samurai connection, the hero myths, etc.
Speaking of commonality, I liked the article that ties Tillineus, Waterman, and that other dude(who's name escapes me). There was a real feeling of connection portrayed there, a lineage. I like the, what wilkl Waterman be doing when he's 94 line(pardon the bad paraphrase)
Sure, the story of this blog! There are no heroes, many things happen, and in the end it will all be obliterated by a failing hard drive. Meaningless and meaningful, substantive and insubstantial; very Daoist, to refer back a few posts.
Ha, true enough sky...but I hope this mythology will last in our memory and we will tell of all the things that happenedd and all the things that didn't; intact or obliterated
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Check out "The Hero With a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell. George Lucas credited the book as inspiration for Star Wars. You can google it too and get a nice summary at Wikipedia.
yeah. great book. Campbell was quite a thinker, perhaps among the first, in the modern age, at least, to show the connections of ideas/stories across culture and time.
also, The Power of Myth, by Campbell, does a similar thing-- traces the common stories through every culture--the cowboy/samurai connection, the hero myths, etc.
Speaking of commonality, I liked the article that ties Tillineus, Waterman, and that other dude(who's name escapes me). There was a real feeling of connection portrayed there, a lineage. I like the, what wilkl Waterman be doing when he's 94 line(pardon the bad paraphrase)
Connections! Do not deny the minds.
that is really interesting. I've got to check out those books.
So, are there any new stories?
Sure, the story of this blog! There are no heroes, many things happen, and in the end it will all be obliterated by a failing hard drive. Meaningless and meaningful, substantive and insubstantial; very Daoist, to refer back a few posts.
ha! the blog of no-blog.
Ha, true enough sky...but I hope this mythology will last in our memory and we will tell of all the things that happenedd and all the things that didn't; intact or obliterated
I thought I was the hero!
LOL
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