It Is Clear That All Verbal Structures

My Subject Is The Educated Imagination, And Education Is Something That Affects The Whole Person, Not Bits And Pieces Of Him .

Most Of My Writing Consists Of An Attempt To Translate Aphorisms Into Continuous Prose.

The Traveler From Europe Edges Into It Like A Tiny Jonah Entering An Inconceivably Large Whale, Slipping Past The Straits Of Belle Isle Into The Gulf Of St. Lawrence, Where Five Canadian Provinces Surround Him, For The Most Part Invisible... To Enter Canada Is A Matter Of Being Silently Swallowed By An Alien Continent.

The Simple Point Is That Literature Belongs To The World Man Constructs, Not To The World He Sees; To His Home, Not His Environment.

Myths, As Compared With Folk Tales, Are Usually In A Special Category Of Seriousness: They Are Believed To Have "really Happened,"or To Have Some Exceptional Significance In Explaining Certain Features Of Life, Such As Ritual. Again, Whereas Folk Tales Simply Interchange Motifs And Develop Variants, Myths Show An Odd Tendency To Stick Together And Build Up Bigger Structures. We Have Creation Myths, Fall And Flood Myths, Metamorphose And Dying-god Myths.