title: A blue fire: Selected writings
author: James Hillman
description: For Jungian psychoanalyst Hillman, who has won a following with such books as Re-Visioning Psychology , the psyche is a polytheistic battleground, words are carriers of soul between people and dream images are "necessary angels" demanding a response. Readers who have found Hillman's therapeutic approach impractical or abstruse will welcome this compact, highly readable anthology of his writings--edited in collaboration with Hillman and encompassing hard-to-find books, articles and lectures. The selections reveal Hillman as a systematic thinker who adopts an open-ended attitude toward the mind, seeking out mythic archetypes and fantasies at work in family conflicts, in politics, war, the workplace--and in the betrayals and raptures of love. <br />Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # A World is Born
  
  
  ### Leigh Brackett
  
  
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  A WORLD IS BORN
  
  by
  
  LEIGH BRACKETT
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Illustration]
  
  The first ripples of blue fire touched Dio's men. Bolts of it fastened on gun-
  butts, and knuckles. Men screamed and fell. Jill cried out as he tore silver
  ornaments from her dress.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Mel Gray flung down his hoe with a sudden tigerish fierceness and stood erect.
  Tom Ward, working beside him, glanced at Gray's Indianesque profile, the youth
  of it hardened by war and the hells of the Eros prison blocks.
  
  A quick flash of satisfaction