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put another way, a successful decon/recon cycle is the story of an author charting his own path to salvation https://t.co/Zblat7ZxzC https://t.co/t9L2dDFBid
@eigenrobot In this sense I am thankful for the people in my life who always want to deconstruct the things I like. They challenge me to move through my own cycles faster. The more I adopted whacko beliefs (at first cosmetic and then deep-seated), the faster this accelerated.
explication: the characters of the last unicorn are deeply flawed archetypes from heroic fantasy: useless wizard, superannuated maiden, unicorn in a world grown past her kind this is the deconstruction. the reconstruction is their journey home to the story in which they belong. https://t.co/Kvnzvfm8jl
haggard is the failure mode that the author, himself, must overcome haggard's overthrow and the completion of the cycle--the return of magic to the world through the archetypes transcending their profanity in the performance of their narrative rite--buys salvation for the author
and that is exactly what heroes are for https://t.co/OErbq4hVMY
