I collect timepieces. Not really in the way you'd assume. I certainly don't spend money on them. I have a few nice pieces, expensive ones, gifts mostly, but the rest aren't of any comparable pedigree. They're mongrels dredged from flea-market stalls and bartered from back-alley Bangkok bargain-stores. My main Old Reliant is one of those ( Read more... )

The future of the hero

1. Campbell defines the hero as a figure who mediates between change and continuity:
- the hero is compelled to leave the fixed rules and norms of his birth-culture
- he is exposed a world with different rules and cultural norms (figuratively, in the form of monsters and demons, or allegorically in the form of moral challenges ( ( Read more... )