Sunday, June 19, 2005
“There is nothing that a man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.”
- Elias Canetti (1905 – 1994), Austrian novelist and philosopher: opening lines of “Crowds and Power”, 1960, translated 1962.
“If morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894), Scottish writer, poet and essayist: “Across the Plains”, 1892.
“Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet. Making contact with the Wild Man is the step the Eighties male or the Nineties male has yet to take. That bucketing-out process has yet to begin in our contemporary culture.”
- Robert Bly (b. 1926), American poet and author: “Iron John”, 1990.
- Elias Canetti (1905 – 1994), Austrian novelist and philosopher: opening lines of “Crowds and Power”, 1960, translated 1962.
“If morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894), Scottish writer, poet and essayist: “Across the Plains”, 1892.
“Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet. Making contact with the Wild Man is the step the Eighties male or the Nineties male has yet to take. That bucketing-out process has yet to begin in our contemporary culture.”
- Robert Bly (b. 1926), American poet and author: “Iron John”, 1990.
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