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Neither Hero nor Journey
There, he’d said it. He had no reason to fight in this conflict; his mother was avenged, the other villagers saved. He still wanted to explore Valinhall, to become stronger, but that was a separate issue. Or is it separate? Simon wondered. Why do I need to keep Traveling, if there’s no one out there to fight? They
Will Wight • The Crimson Vault (The Traveler's Gate Trilogy Book 2)
The most inspiring work in the world today is being performed by those who have undergone this initiatory passage, those who have returned with precious resources for a soulcentric or life-sustaining society. This is the descent of which Thomas writes, the mature hero's journey described by mythologist Joseph Campbell, the descent to the goddess po
... See moreBill Plotkin • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
Anyway, the point is: the hero’s journey and carrier bag are both about narrative models rather than gendered modes of storytelling, and the rise of the novel was a fall of the hero (whether male or female) from epic demigod figure to boy-with-toy. Or girl-with-toy as the case may be.
Venkatesh Rao • Boat Stories
What if life is like a story and you and I are in the theater of our own minds, looking out the cameras of our eyes, and the story unfolding feels either meaningful or meaningless based on what we decide to make happen in it? And what if, if we trust fate to write our stories, it feels meaningless, but if we accept our own agency and structure our
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