
BONUS: Mythic Themes in the Works of Mann and Joyce
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Goddess of the Ocean
The novel was to have been about the ocean. The old mythology out of which that biblical text is built has a goddess and a god in union. It's out of the joining of the male and female principles, the pair of opposites, that the world comes forth. I bought three copies of finegan's wegk that i brought within a couple of months of the book's publication, which had been remaindered. He had worked on that for 18 years. And you should have read the reviews. They were incredible. These noadolts who write the newspaers. They can't read even a work written in perfectly lucid english... they tried wich fantast
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