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1.960-1.980 You will see their secret faces, hear their silent voices, and taste the truth they bit from the blood-red apple. But no Garden ofEden for those [Gideon's] children, or for us, either. It is never easy to enter other people's lives; it is harder to try to understand them. What does make them simple, complicated, superorganized or completely unstructured? Like Lucifer falling, we feel at a loss to understand How, or When, or Why. ... jANE STUART, INTRODUCTION TO GIDEON's CHILDREN The universal hero story that Joseph Campbell describes to us is about the youth who is summoned by natural forces to leave home.... You leave home and you cross a threshold, which is a jumping off place, and you find yourself in an exotic land, like the U.S. Army, or California in the 1960s, or college in any era.... As writers and artists and scholars, we write down our experiences and our thoughts, and thus they are visible. But most people don't do that; their experience remains private. But even so, every person's experience is in some way universal. GuRNEY NoRMAN, INTERVIEW IN THE IRoN MouNTAIN REVIEW This page intentionally left blank ...

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