touchstone quotations: Leon Gordon on Our World

Rita (Barbara Stanwyck), upon seeing an old flame, after several years: "Strange world, isn't it?"

Chris, the old flame (Robert Taylor): "No. It's just the people in it."

From the film His Brother's Wife, 1936
Screenplay by Leon Gordon
Released by MGM

Source: IMDb

Joseph Campbell on Interesting Times

I have read somewhere of an old Chinese curse: "May you be born in an interesting time." This is a very interesting time. There are no models for anything that is going on. It is a period of free fall into the future, and each has to make his or her own way. The old models are not working; the new have not yet appeared. In fact, it is we who are even now shaping of the new in the shaping of our interesting lives. And, that is the whole sense (in mythological terms) of the present challenge: we are the ancestors of an age to come, the unwitting generators of its supporting myths, the mythic models that will inspire its lives.

Joseph Campbell
1904 - 1987
Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, 2013

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Leon Gordon on Our World