From my sketchbook, a quotation from Joseph Campbell's book "The Hero With A Thousand Faces". I can see this as the flagship for a whole line of Hallmark-style greeting cards, except that I don't have the rights to any of it.
For those who can't read my handwriting:
"The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms we have loved."
See? Cheery!
As a bonus, I've included a caricature of Mr. Campbell as I imagine he would have looked phrasing those words. Since nobody else seems to be caricaturing Joseph Campbell, I figured JSVB might as well be on the cutting edge of that artform.
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