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The Gift of Delight
“What a good actor — a real actor — is always trying to do is very difficult, almost impossible, so most of the time we fail…. If you find someone who claims they are always satisfied, always good, a professional who hits the marks, you are not looking at an actor. I’m not going to say what you’re looking at, but it’s not an actor. It’s not an artist. I’m going to say it: What you have is a performer. I am not a performer.”
— Kim Stanley
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During the Middle Ages the unicorn symbolized the creative masculine spirit, so fierce and powerful that only a virgin could tame him and only then through deception.
Unicorns, being strong and wild, are usually associated with the lion, the eagle, and the dragon. Ancient stories of the unicorn exist in almost every culture: in the world of the Old Testament, in Persia, India, China, as well as in the West. In one legend the unicorn was so strong and independent it refused to enter the ark and swam throughout the flood. Further, the horn of the unicorn signified health, strength and happiness, and to drink from it cured or provided immunity to incurable diseases….
…. Now the unicorn, that wondrous masculine symbol, is sentimentalized into being a stuffed toy living in cutesy toy departments or filling the forest of aisles in stationery and card shops, and our culture is…
