OotP - feeling just a bit resentful...

Dennis Grant trog at wincom.net
Mon Jun 23 12:09:20 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 62006

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ewdotson" <ewdotson at s...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Dennis Grant" <trog at w...> 

> > There's a book by.... I want to say "Carpenter".... "Universal Hero"
> > or some such... anyway, it covers this in great detail. This book 
> > was a strong influence on George Lucas, to the point where the first 
> > three Star Wars movies are pretty well a distillation of Carpenter's
> > (I  hope I've got that name right) book.

> [snip actual meat of post]

> I just wanted to observe that the book you're thinking of is 
> _Hero_With_A_Thousand_Faces by Joseph Campbell, in case anyone reads 
> your post and wants to look into it.

Bingo! That's the one. Thank you.

DG





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