If you don’t know what story cubes are, see the introduction to the story cubes series.
To see the original roll of the story cubes, see yesterday’s post.
There is a primal urge in all of us that burns within our souls. It has buried itself in our humanity like a burrowed beetle since before the days of a story about an apple, a garden, and a serpent.
Stories before, stories since, and even that story tells us the truth about ourselves through magic in a way that the truth can’t. It is one thing to be told you’re a sinner; it is quite another thing to read a story of knights and castles and know that there is more to the story… which means more to your story.
When we let these big stories bring light to our night, we might not find out who we are, but we find out who we could be. Without them, we languish, grow old, wilt, and die.
Happy May 4th. Star Wars—the original one/Episode 4/A New Hope/the-one-that-started-what-Disney-horribly-killed/whatever you call it—is at its most basic level strongly related to the best of the centuries-old epics we (okay, literature history majors) still read today. Space knights, sword fights, a princess who needs help on a quest, the overthrow of an evil king… it’s King Arthur with hyperspace and light sabers. One of the biggest reasons the sequels failed but the original became embedded in our cultural consciousness is that Disney forgot what George Lucas instinctively understood.
This one was a fun one for cube placement. The big dragon looks like it’s either eating the small one or teaching it how to breathe fire. The gap between the tower and the light bulb is so that the light will be directly over the word “Night.” Also, for the first time I put a cube upside down.
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