{"id":18555,"date":"2010-11-13T11:25:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T16:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=18555"},"modified":"2010-11-13T11:25:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T16:25:16","slug":"robert-louis-stevenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/11\/13\/robert-louis-stevenson\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Louis Stevenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/stevenson10-hp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18556\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/stevenson10-hp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/stevenson10-hp.jpg 515w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/stevenson10-hp-300x110.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Louis_Stevenson\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Louis Stevenson<\/a>&#8216;s birthday (1850-1894).\u00a0 Even Google is celebrating, as you can see from its <em>Treasure Island-<\/em>themed link icon (above).<\/p>\n<p>Frye in &#8220;Third Variation: The Cave&#8221; in <em>Words with Power<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In most descent mythis there is some formidable enemy &#8212; Minotaur or dragon or demon like Asmodeus &#8212; to be fought and overcome, and frequently this enemy is blocking the goal of the descent.\u00a0 The goal is often, in popular romance especially, a treasure of gold or jewels, as in <em>Treasure Island<\/em> or <em>Tom Sawyer<\/em> or Poe&#8217;s <em>Gold Bug<\/em>. . . The type of society that searches for such treasure is an instensely selective one.\u00a0 In popular literature the searchers may be boys or antisocial groups (pirates and the like) that boys find it easy to identify with.\u00a0 The standards of admission often reverse those of more conventional societies. . . Often the dragon-guarded hoard is a metaphor for some form of wisdom or fertility that is the real object of descent.\u00a0 (<em>CW<\/em> 26, 203)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Robert Louis Stevenson&#8216;s birthday (1850-1894).\u00a0 Even Google is celebrating, as you can see from its Treasure Island-themed link icon (above). 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