We re-watched a favorite movie, Cannery Row with Nick Nolte. Wanting to know about the real Doc, looked on-line about Ricketts. Wikipedia reports: Ricketts also influenced JOSEPH CAMPBELL. This was an important period in the development of Campbells thinking about the epic journey of the hero with a thousand faces. Campbell lived for a while next door to Ricketts, participated in professional and social activities at his neighbors, and accompanied him, along with Xenia and Sasha Kashevaroff, on a 1932 journey to Juneau, Alaska on the Grampus. Like Steinbeck, Campbell played with a novel written round Ricketts as hero, but unlike Steinbeck, didnt complete the book. Bruce Robison writes that Campbell would refer to those days as a time when everything in his life was taking shape.... Campbell, the great chronicler of the heros journey in mythology, recognized patterns that paralleled his own thinking in one of Rickettss unpublished philosophical essays. Echoes of Carl Jung, Robinson Jeffers and James Joyce can be found in the work of Steinbeck and Ricketts as well as Campbell.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 13:43:01 +0000
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