"Joel Rosenberg - Omnibus 01 - The Guardians of the Flame" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rosenberg Joel C)

The great problems of life . . . are always related to
the primordial images of the collective unconscious . . .
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also
the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and
demonic,
but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense
of the word, "divine."

тАФCarl Gustave Jung
. . . for every human being there is a diversity
of existences . . . the single existence is itself an
illusion . . .

тАФSaul Bellow



It seems to me that there might well be the equivalent, with regard to the collective unconscious,
of the concept in physics of "critical mass." Are we approaching it? Quite possiblyтАФconsider the
resurgence of spiritualism, in all its guises, and don't neglect the function of
the fantasy role-playing games. The characters, the situations . . . all seem to touch something
that is basic and fundamental.

But where would the locus of crisis be? And how can
it be exploited? The Elder Edda, The Song of the Harper, The Book of the Dead, even The Great
Hymn to the Aten offer only hints, suggestions, intimations.

Perhaps the best approach would be neither induction nor deduction, but, rather, empirical
experimentation. Perhaps . . .
тАФArthur Simpson Deighton


DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Karl Cullinane/Barak dilettante and acting major/warrior Andrea Andropolous/Lotana English
major/novice wizard James Michael Finnegan/Ahira Bandylegs computer sciences major/dwarf
warrior Doria Perlstein/Doria of the Healing Hand domestic arts major/master cleric Walter
Slovotsky/Hakim Singh agricultural sciences major/journeyman thief Jason Parker/Einar
Lightfingers history major/master thief Louis Riccetti/Aristobulus civil engineering major/master
wizard Arthur Simpson Deighton, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Philosophy, gamemaster Wen'l of
Lundescarne peasant and freefarmer Frann of Pandathaway innkeeper Lordling Alahn Lund heir
to the throne of Lundeyll Marik, Arno men-at-arms Avair Ganness captain and owner of the Ganness'
Pride Airvhan ip Melhrood customs official Challa man-at-arms Callutius Junior Librarian of the
Great Library of Pandathaway Oreen Specializing Librarian of the Great Library of Pandathaway
Ellegon a young dragon Tommallo owner of the Inn of Quiet Repose Khoralt ip Therranj
Winesellers Delegate to the Pandathaway Guilds' Council, Games official Ohlmin master slaver
Blenryth master wizard The Dragon at the Gate The Matriarch of the Society of the Healing