>>96823451
He who has no past, has no future.
>>96823505
Don't worry.
It's coming to an end.
This sterile time was an unnatural thing, that could not be sustained.
If you meet a woman at the ford, washing the blood from a death-shroud.
Do not ask her who's it is.
>>96823706
Not my authority.
Not mine at all.
There is a canon.
There are many canons.
There's the Western canon.
And the classical Chinese canon.
And others besides.
And in time, dead men pile up, who's works have outlasted the lives of their critics, and they go into the canon, if their works are over time at last deemed great enough.
There are qualities which can be identified in common with all the timeless stories.
They are, as all works are, anchored in the time and place of their creation.
But they are also anchored in the things that ran before them, that are perennial to the human condition.
There are really, a handful of truly great story archetypes, which are told again and again, in permutations.
These are the stuff of archetypal myth.
All that comes after is a modification, or a derivation.
Whether or not the derivation can be good, is seen on how it wears it's pedigree.
Nobody writes a great book, who has not read at least some good ones.
Postmodernism is the death of perspective, by contraperspective.
It is an odious maladaption.
There is no virtue in deconstructing for the sake of deconstruction.
Deconstruction is merely the preface to a reconstruction.
Cycles within cycles, wheels within wheels.
The sacred king murders himself, to win the right to protect the golden tree from his successor.
Each is the ritual husband of Diana, who lives and dies cyclically.
He is eternally his own murderer and victim.
