[UA] Cloudbusting and an archetype

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

I'm starting to like this whole Archetype thing. 
Grownups who Listen to Kids tend, in literature, at
least, to be able to change the kids into things. 
They shape the children into heroes or theives or
broken husks -like a miniature form of the IC shaping
the world.  There always seems to be some enormous
sacrifice involved, though.  Merlin was entrapped, Obi
Wan ate lightsaber, the Pied Piper dissapeared into a
mountain, and Gacy was jailed.  Yet, they still
influenced -even communicated- with their, um,
charges? Victims? afterward.  I don't know about
Wonka, though. 

--- Gaston Phillips <gaston at math.sunysb.edu> wrote:
> > Possible avatars for the Wonderful Grownup might
> be good authors, the
> > primary school teacher that all the boys had a
> crush on, grandpa, the
> > eccentric uncle who has been overseas... other
> suggestions?

>>>>snippet>>>
> Merlin, in the early arthurian tales
> Obi Wan Kenobi
> The Pied Piper
> Dr. Seuss
> Roald Dahl (and/or/as represented by Willy Wonka)
> Mary Poppins
> Fagin from Oliver Twist
> 
> ... grown ups who listen to children, and somehow
> have not "forgotten the
> magic of youth".  They take children seriously, they
> don't laugh at the
> kids' imaginations, and they share stories.
> 
> At the risk of getting really warped with this,
> maybe John Wayne Gacy
> ascended, turning the Archetype dark and twisted in
> our age?
> 



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