The Functions of Ritual
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Ocean and the Rivers
"I would simply like to terminate with a few lines of poem that again impressed me a long time ago by Robinson Jeffers," he said. "The old voice of the ocean, the bird chattered, a little river from different throats in tone, one language." He continued: "And so I believe if we were strong enough to listen to the roar of the sick nations, the voice of the hunger smitten cities, those voices also would be clean as a child or like some girls breathing who dances alone by the ocean shore dreaming of lovers".
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