Spadina streetcar platform

Caucasian woman, mid 20s, with wet, long brown hair pushed back by glasses, wearing long brown coat, and small leather backpack.

The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell (Anchor)

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There is something magical about films. The person you are looking at is also somewhere else at the same time. That is the condition of a god. If a movie actor comes into the theater, everybody turns and looks at the movie actor. He is the real hero of the occasion. He is on another plane. He is a multiple presence. What you are seeing on the screen really isn’t he, and yet the ‘he’ comes.

If she didn’t answer her phone, he’d worry she’d fallen asleep in the tub, and skip out of work to check in on her. If she did answer her phone, he’d hear the noise and know. The phone continued to pulse and glow against the sticky table top, a fresh beer released from a stranger’s fingers into hers.

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