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1939 · The Monomyth
The Wizard of Oz
A girl is blown from grey Kansas into a colored country, kills a witch she did not mean to fight, and wakes able to see home.
The American monomyth in primary colors. Threshold, trials, boon, return — and the elixir is recognition, not a trophy.
01 · Departure
The Call to Adventure
01 · The Call to Adventure
Miss Gulch, Toto, the sky. Kansas is too small for the feeling in her.
A herald — person, event, or inner restlessness — announces that the ordinary world is no longer enough. Destiny has a claim.