“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” ― James Joyce, Ulysses. December 1920
“It crouches near the center of creation. There is no night where it waits. Only the riddle of which terrible dream will set it loose. It beheaded mercy to take possession of that place. It feasts on darkness from the minds of men. No one has ever seen its eyeless face. When it sleeps we know a few moments of peace. But when it breathes again we go down in fire and mate with jackals. It knows our fear. It has our number. It waited for our coming and it will abide long after we have become congealed smoke. It has never heard music, and shows its fangs when we panic. It is the beast of our savage past, hungering today, and waiting patiently for the mortal meal of all our golden tomorrows. It lies waiting.” ― Harlan Ellison, The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World. June 1968
“There are forces in the world today, Mr. Winsocki, that are invisibly working to make us all carbon copies of one another. Forces that crush us into molds of each other. You walk down the street and never see anyone’s face, really. You sit faceless in a movie, or hidden from sight in a dreary living room watching television. When you pay bills, or car fares or talk to people, they see the job they’re doing, but never you.” ― Harlan Ellison, The Beast That Shouted Love At the Heart of the World. June 1968
Monomyth metaphors to Monomyth metaphor translations.
"Written in confusing 'modernist' prose, the style is reminiscent of James Joyce's rather challenging books, Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake." - https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/580837/
“There is no night where it waits. Only the riddle of which terrible dream will set it loose." ― Harlan Ellison ... Joyce's Finnegans Wake is a dream that takes place at night. A rescue from dreams to Wake.
"It beheaded mercy to take possession of that place. It feasts on darkness from the minds of men." ― Harlan Ellison ... Bible verse Romans 11:32 is a deep reference throughout the works of James Joyce. How church has educated The Bible has been to avoid Bible verse 11:32 equation and statement. The beheading of mercy is to elminate the Romans 11:32 Bible equation from society. To not make mercy the ultimate and final outcome of all sins.
"It has never heard music, and shows its fangs when we panic." ― Harlan Ellison ... Finnegans Wake singsong, musical, is all music, all oral sound flows, all languge bends to music. Joyce in 1924 publication of the singsong of Wake is making the same statement loudly.
"It is the beast of our savage past, hungering today, and waiting patiently for the mortal meal of all our golden tomorrows. It lies waiting.” ― Harlan Ellison, The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World. June 1968 ... match up to: “History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” ― James Joyce, Ulysses. December 1920
“There are forces in the world today, Mr. Winsocki, that are invisibly working to make us all carbon copies of one another. Forces that crush us into molds of each other. You walk down the street and never see anyone’s face, really. You sit faceless in a movie, or hidden from sight in a dreary living room watching television. When you pay bills, or car fares or talk to people, they see the job they’re doing, but never you.” ― Harlan Ellison, The Beast That Shouted Love At the Heart of the World. June 1968
METAPHOR LEVEL TRANSLATION To Marshall McLuhan
"The more you make people alike, the more competition you have. Competition is based on the principle of absolute conformity." - Marshall McLuhan, page 135, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan