Read Blake Or Go To Hell, That's

In The World Of The Imagination, Anything Goes That's Imaginatively Possible, But Nothing Really Happens.

The Tricky Or Boastful Gods Of Ancient Myths And Primitive Folk Tales Are Characters Of The Same Kind That Turn Up In Faulkner Or Tennessee Williams.

The Supremacy Of The Verbal Over The Monumental Has Something About It Of The Supremacy Of Life Over Death.

The Metaphor Of The King As The Shepherd Of His People Goes Back To Ancient Egypt. Perhaps The Use Of This Particular Convention Is Due To The Fact That, Being Stupid, Affectionate, Gregarious, And Easily Stampeded, The Societies Formed By Sheep Are Most Like Human Ones.

Writing: I Certainly Do Rewrite My Central Myth In Every Book, And Would Never Read Or Trust Any Writer Who Did Not Also Do So.