the dream is always the same

Where they found the first body. Brer Rabbit Motel, Villa Park, IL

Photo credit: Spencer Parsons

If we are right in our suggestion that romance, tragedy, irony, and comedy are all episodes in a total quest-myth, we can see how it is that comedy can contain a potential tragedy within itself.

There is such a thing as  the unified text that is written as the expression of a single voice, but that reveals itself as open to interpretation on several levels.

That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space.

 "...of all recognitions, the best is that which arises from the incidents themselves, where the startling discovery is made by natural means." 

Hence do we proceed to search out the secret powers of nature (which is beside our end), which to know profits not, and wherein men desire nothing but to know.

We shall hear the angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

"There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical."