Like a fish snared by a bait, I got caught by Joseph Campbell's works. This is what I've been devouring recently. In his interview with Bill Moyers, shortly before his death, he said:

Moyers There is a fetching story about President Eisenhower and the first computers--

Campbell -- Eisenhower went into a room full of computers. And he put the ( Read more... )

People in general know nowadays that computers come in two major parts -- hardware and software. You can touch hardware. You can see hardware. You can throw hardware to the back of the truck and pull an Office Space on it in the middle of a lonely field.

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1. folktale/fairy tale and why
2. photo/painting of mythological/folktale theme
3. poem/song
4. recurring motif/symbol/myth

Post something from the above, or examples of all if you wish.

I took this from Chapter 14 of Out of Control, written by Kevin Kelly. The original is here. This is the kind of stories I aspire to write ... you read it and it casts a spell in your mind. Enjoy.

My path to the fiction section on the third floor of the university library meandered through hundreds of thousands of books sleeping on shelves. Have ( Read more... )

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Hi everyone, my dad was harrassing me to go and look at his website that he's been working on, and I was looking in the Events section and came across something that might be of interest to people here. (Please also pass this along to anyone you know that may be interested!). From here: Read more... )

This is a collection of all links we've found that are useful sources for Mythical Realms. I'm posting them altogether like this for easy access. Please continue to highlight any wonderful links you find as new posts, and either lunar_echo or myself will add them here for future reference. A link to this post will be available from the userinfo page, so you ( Read more... )

Hello all, I was wondering if you had any favourite songs or poems that had a mythical aspect to them? I always love finding these little treasures & seeing how artists incorporate them in their work. One song that springs to mind is PJ Harvey's Sheela-Na-Gig.

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Me again. I was browsing this community and noticed
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I thought it was about time I contributed something here, but have been racking my brains trying to think what to post, so I thought I'd just go with a little story I found a while back that I'm completely in love with ( Read more... )