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More hero motifs

September 14, 2008

thinking about hero motifs in my life/writing/etc. and just found this journal entry from April 8, 2005 entitled “I’m Tired”
I’m tired, ok? I’m tired of hiding and tired of chasing. Tired of humans who walk the earth mouthing messages of freedom, love and joy but unable to apply those principals to those around them. Tired [...]

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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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