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What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfillment or the fiasco. There’s always the possibility of a fiasco.
But there’s also the possibility of bliss
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In these essays - contemporary with his years at Sarah Lawerence and with his legendary Cooper Union lectures - Campbell explores the origins of myth, from the Grimms' fairy tales to Native American legends. He explains how the symbolic content of myth is linked to universal human experience and how the myths and experiences change over time.
Included is the famed essay "Mythogenesis," which traces the rise and decline of a Native American legend.
Reviews:
In this book, as in his other work, Campbell displays his immense learning, drawing evidence to support his case from virtually every branch of human knowledge.
—The New York Times Book Review
Campbell has become one of the rarest of intellectuals in American life: a serious thinker who had been embraced by the popular culture.— Newsweek |
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