title: Riting Myth, Mythic Writing: Plotting Your Personal Story
author:  Dennis Patrick Slattery 
description: Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D., has been teaching for 42 years, the last 17 in the Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology and Depth Psychotherapy programs at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of 18 books and over 300 essays on scholarly and cultural topics as well as book and film reviews that have appeared in books, magazine, journals and newspapers.
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  # Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Frank R. Stockton
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  AMOS KILBRIGHT: HIS ADSCITITIOUS EXPERIENCES.
  
  
  THE REVERSIBLE LANDSCAPE.
  
  
  DUSKY PHILOSOPHY.
  
  
  PLAIN FISHING.
  
  
  
  
  
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  AMOS KILBRIGHT; HIS ADSCITITIOUS EXPERIENCES
  
  
  With Other Stories
  
  
  by
  
  
  FRANK R. STOCKTON
  
  
  1888
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### AMOS KILBRIGHT: HIS ADSCITITIOUS
  
  
  EXPERIENCES.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [This story is told by Mr. Richard Colesworthy, an attorney-at-law,
  
  
  in a large town in one of our Eastern States. The fact that Mr.
  
  
  Colesworthy is a practical man, and but little given, outside of his
  
  
  profession, to speculative theorizing, adds a weight to his statements
  
  
  which they might not otherwise possess.]
  
  
    
  In the practice of my profession I am in the habit of meeting with
  
  
  all sorts and condition