Posts made in September 18th, 2016


THE ORDINARY WORLD — where you are now, but don’t belong. If you are not a steeple [herd animal] then you will feel like there is something more to life than walking along a well worn path with your nose up the ass in front of you, and feeling another nose behind. If you’re young, you probably haven’t been the teacher’s pet. If you’re my age you wonder that you’re alive and not in jail.  ...

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THE CALL TO ADVENTURE. is not for everyone. But for some of us, it can’t be resisted anymore than a caterpillar can resist becoming a butterfly. It gets to be too much listening to crap from those who wear neckties.     need crap from analysis.                     Something shakes up the situation, either from external pressures or from something rising up from deep...

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The hero feels the fear of the unknown and tries to turn away from the adventure, however briefly.  Alternately, another character may express the uncertainty and danger ahead.   Fear, lethargy, conformist pressures , lazy..

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 CROSSING THE THRESHOLD.  At the end of Act One, the hero commits to leaving the Ordinary World and entering a new region or condition with unfamiliar rules and values.      

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