http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2006/07/05/the-unified-theory-of-riddles-dreams-and-myths/ Embrace Heritage Skills from Your Tribal Past Wed, 7 Jan 2009 03:39:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2006/07/05/the-unified-theory-of-riddles-dreams-and-myths/#comment-1854 The College of Mythic Cartography » Blog Archive » Breaking the Spell VI: The Reason for Riddles Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:22:28 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2006/07/05/the-unified-theory-of-riddles-dreams-and-myths/#comment-1854 [...] In the intervening years I’ve worked at cracking the nut of what Tom Brown passed on to me, which has evolved into a Theory of Riddles, and a practice of Riddle-Mastery. Whatever errors of method in my evolving sense of riddling belong solely to me, and whatever excellences to my mentor, as it has taken some substantive experimentation and exploration to come up with a way to convert a linear/literal/literate mind gracefully into an associative/metaphorical/layering one. As one of the greatest offenders of linearity and literalness, I have found myself an excellent test subject. [...] […] In the intervening years I’ve worked at cracking the nut of what Tom Brown passed on to me, which has evolved into a Theory of Riddles, and a practice of Riddle-Mastery. Whatever errors of method in my evolving sense of riddling belong solely to me, and whatever excellences to my mentor, as it has taken some substantive experimentation and exploration to come up with a way to convert a linear/literal/literate mind gracefully into an associative/metaphorical/layering one. As one of the greatest offenders of linearity and literalness, I have found myself an excellent test subject. […]

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