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Tony Ellis,
Re: the five stage hero of the brown book.
The shortest answer is:
1. Birth
2. Initiation
3. Reign
4. Repose
5. Death
The medium answer is: read my essay ("A Closer Look at the Brown Book") on the subject in "The New York Review of Science Fiction No. 54," 2-93.
The full experience is: read THE WHITE GODDESS by Robert Graves, then re-read all the brown book stories, and finally, if you simply must, read my essay.
"NYRSF"
Dragon Press
P.O. Box 78
Pleasantville NY 10570
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