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MOYERS:
The meaning is essentially wordless.
CAMPBELL: Yes. Words are always qualifications and limitations.
MOYERS:
And yet, Joe, all we puny human beings are left with is
this miserable language, beautiful though it is, that falls
short of trying to describe-
CAMPBELL: That's right, and that's why it is a peak experience
to break past all that, every now and then, and to realize,
"Oh . . . ah. . . ."
THE POWER
OF MYTH
MASKS OF ETERNITY P. 230-231
An interview of Joseph Campbell, Mythologist and Bill Moyers
April
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