Sunday, 9 April 2017

Discount chocolate and trail mix from DR, 37th Ave. (07:37).

34th Ave. (9221–31). JH G’market (9222–29). Man pulling bread apart (9227–29). Child and young man (9230–31).

79th St. (9232–33). Bums (9232). My EHSQ chalk drawing at the Garden Sch. (9233).

34th Ave. (9234–41). More of JH G’market (9235–37). Leaning man (9238). Blurry auto repair man (9239–41).

Androgynous person on 35th Ave. (9242).

37th Ave. NYBD (9243–55). Moving toys dumped onto game table (9244). Almost entirely Chuck’s food, plus A. Mike’s chip dish (9245–49). Grilled with questions by Jon S. Garland posing (9251–54). Palm Sunday filibuster‐style monologue. The storage tub holds seventeen gallons (9255).

Fruit bowl and tapioca pudding from FD. Ice cream and discount dark‐chocolate pistachio bark from DR.

“There is a kind of secondary hero to revitalize the tradition. This hero reinterprets the tradition and makes it valid as a living experience today instead of a lot of outdated clichés. This has to be done with all traditions. …

“That’s the reduction of mythology to theology. Mythology is very fluid. Most of the myths are self‐contradictory. You may even find four or five myths in a given culture, all giving different versions of the same mystery. Then theology comes along and says it has got to be just this way. Mythology is poetry, and the poetic language is very flexible.

“Religion turns poetry into prose. God is literally up there, and this is literally what he thinks, and this is the way you’ve got to behave to get into proper relationship with that god up there. …

“But the miracles of legend need not necessarily have been facts.”

—Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers, New York: Doubleday, 1988, 141–42.

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