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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
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bookshelves: mythology-campbell, favorites
Oct 19, 2009
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Read 6 times. Last read January 1, 1989.
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“Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.”
― The Hero With a Thousand Faces
― The Hero With a Thousand Faces
“The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.”
― The Hero With a Thousand Faces
― The Hero With a Thousand Faces
“Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.”
― The Hero With a Thousand Faces
― The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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Started Reading
January 1, 1989
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Finished Reading
October 19, 2009
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August 1, 2010
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January 27, 2011
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Mar 17, 2011 12:16PM
I went to an antique/book store yesterday that had two shelves of books from the poet Robert Bly’s personal library. I bought a copy of The Hero with a Thousand Faces that that he had scribbled notes in and underlined. I already have a copy, but it was too interesting to resist. His handwriting is terrible though! So I may never figure out what it says.
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Melody I am SO JEALOUS!!
