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Refusal of the Call, Tantalus, and a younger me

September 12, 2008

On the way home to Brooklyn on the F train, I began the Campbell reading for week 3 which begins with the chapter entitled Refusal of the Call.  A couple of passages immediately jumped out at me (for reasons I will explain momentarily), specifically:
“Refusal of the summons converts the adventure into its negative…the subject becomes [...]

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