The Basics, More Or Less

Source materials for the project at hand, whatever it is, and whatever it might yet be: Grimm’s Fairy Tales; Hans Christian Andersen; William Graham Sumner’s Folkways; Frazer’s The Golden Bough; Mythology (Graves, Bulfinch, Hamilton, etc.); the Icelandic Sagas and Norse myths; The Odyssey and The Iliad; The Aeneid; Ovid’s Metamorphoses; The Divine Comedy; James Brown; Little Nemo in Slumberland; Goethe’s Faust; Skip James; Shakespeare; the fables of La Fontaine; Tacitus; the stories of Chekhov; George Herriman’s Krazy Kat; The Koran; The Bible; Jay Robert Nash’s Bloodletters and Badmen; Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable; Hank Williams; Butler’s Lives of the Saints; Suetonius’ Twelve Caesars; August Sander’s People of the 20th Century; Cellarius’ Atlas of the Heavens; Jessie L. Weston, From Ritual to Romance; Dale Pendell’s Pharmako/Poeia; Louis Charbonneau-Lassay’s The Bestiary of Christ; Frans Masereel, Passionate Journey; Lempriere’s Classical Dictionary; Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy; The Oxford Unabridged Dictionary; Aristotle; Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine; Alan Lomax’s The Folk Songs of North America; The Book of Fabulous Beasts; Mad magazine; The Thousand and One Nights; Flann O’Brien; Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds; The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook; Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project; Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music; Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language; Plutarch’s Lives; Jay’s Journal of Anomalies; Robert Frank’s The Americans; Mabille’s Mirror of the Marvelous; Kafka’s Complete Stories and Parables; Paracelsus; Paradise Lost; William Blake; Alberto Manguel’s Dict
ionary of Imaginary Places; Eudora Welty; In the Night Kitchen; Tex Avery; Goodbye Babylon; The Elements of Style; William James’ The Varieties of Religious Experience; Aesop’s Fables; Sun Ra; Borges; Hesiod’s The Works and Days; St. Clair McKelney, True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality; Carl Jung; King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table; E…T…C….