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Fractal fantasies of transformation: William Blake, Michael Moorcock, and the utilities of mythographic shamanism.(Critical Essay)

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From: Extrapolation
Date: 20041222
Author:Kaplan, Carter

In a posting to the Q & A page at the Web site of British fantasy writer Michael Moorcock, I asked about the operation of personal and group mythographies.

 
   My question has to do ... with the nature of human though processes, 
   and my feeling--which I was led to by reading your Second Ether 
   [trilogy]--that the source of much of our woe--East and West--has to 
   do with our thinking in terms of archetypes and Platonic ideals. We 
   create for ourselves (or they are thrust upon us) whole pantheons 
   (or pandemoniums, as Milton would say) of expectations about 
   ...