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Robin Hood Sequence:
"very young, not long before my father died. Robin Hood became my most influential early years’ mythical hero. This meant that in my first life I had improvised methods in general to effect swift moral and romantic justice for those whom I’d found in trouble or danger. Foolishly self-confident in my first life, I had often rushed thoughtlessly to assume responsibilities beyond my physical and legal means. This rashness led me into complex dilemmas, for in an attempt to keep my assumptions of responsibility legal, I inadvertently borrowed from my unwitting family dragging them into preposterous financial sacrifices
“In inaugurating my new life I took away Robin Hood’s long bow and staff and gave him only scientific textbooks, microscopes, calculating machines, transits in industrialization and a network of tooling in general: I made him substitute new and inanimate forms for animate reform. I did not allow Robin any further public relations professionals or managers or agents to promote or sell him. It seemed obvious that if the new tools that the new Robin Hood did develop could provide valid man advantage increases, they would inevitably be adopted by society in general as the inexorable emergencies which dictate the proper rate of regenerative gestation of evolution took place.”
- Tape transcript 6A Side A. pp.17-18; RBF to Barry Farrell; Bear Island, 16 Aug '70
