# BrownBook5foldHero

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Dec 1997*

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### m.driussi
*03 Dec 1997, 18:21*

Reply:  Item #4968985 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01#

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
(one issue: $3.50)

=mantis=

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