Catch Lost Cantos Of The Ouroboros Caves: Expanded Edition Chronicled By Maggie Schein Presented As File

I could I would give this negative five, I've never tried to read a more pretentious pile of claptrap in my life, Is it possible to give more I'd like to, Having said that, I'm not sure how, precisely, to review this marvel, It's a collection of stories quite unlike anything I've read before, and that's saying something, my friends, since I read a great deal,

Schein holds a Ph, D. in Ethics and teaching at the University of South Carolina, Her philosophical training serves her well here, as these stories are certainly philosophical, Peter S. Beagle said of her stories, "They are genuinely philosophical in a way which is very rare, frightening in a way far removed from scary, and, most impressively, they are often philosophically frightening which is almost unheard of.
" Even he says he hasn't read anything remotely like them in a long time,

Yes, that long time, . . it brings to mind old tales, myths, sacred stories of ancient cultures, and those are precisely the tales Schein draws from, Her understanding of myth and folk tale is impressive, but so, too, is her understanding of the yearnings, fears, passions of the human and at times nonhuman heart,

Medicine men, monks, immortals, witches, seekers, wise talking animals, all make their appearances, In fact, the world Schein creates is one in which everything, everyone, from tree to priest, vibrate with life and the sacred power of story,

Truly, I feel these are stories with the power to transform, HIGHLY recommended. Excellent book!!! An enticing collection of tales told in the fabulist and metafiction traditions, Lost Cantos of the Ouroboros Caves embraces a cyclical movement of renewal, like the ancient ouroboros motif itself, in which artfully rendered answers always give rise to perplexing new questions.
Maggie Schein's stories introduce medicine men, monks, immortals, witches, seekers, and souls in various stages of their cycles in and out of lived life, as well as the occasional talking animal, all searching for meaning and for connections to one another through storytelling.
Each fable is a meditation on love, death, growth, pain, identity, self, spirit, cruelty, beauty, and the natural order, as seen from the perspectives of the primal, the celestial, or the spiritual.
Rooted in the archetypes of mythology and philosophy, Schein's lost cantos are stories about the events that make up our lives and our deaths, She makes deft use of familiar forms and universal symbols to explore anew through narrative those questions and experiences that have always vexed us about our confounding existence and the speculative possibilities that abound within and beyond the moral coil.
Schein's tales ask us to reconsider what it means to live and to die, to be simultaneously a creature of magic and the mundane, of the extraordinary and the alltooordinary.
The result is a delicate but potent collection of alluring fables for the modern reader, recalling classical stories and myths of days long past and asking once more the questions that continue to haunt us.


This expanded edition adds three new fables not included in the original edition as well as new illustrations for all eleven stories from artist Jonathan Hannah, .