BONUS: The Fortunate Fall
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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Is the Death of Life in Us?
Tristan and isalda have drunk the fateful potion, aer brangan. She was mortified and appalled by what had happened. Tristan says he doesn't think i quite know what you mean by that. If this being in love with isalda this way is death, i accept death gladly. And if what you mean is an eternal death, for a mediaeval catholic, this meant, i will accept hell gladly. A this affirmation of even the ultimate pain as being ah the counterplot, the counterplay, to the experience of the extreme bliss and delight of life. It stands over against this one of guilt and fall and agony that's associated with the fall motif
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