... and John both encountered the four stages of the quintessential mythic quest, in chronologically successive stages of Hazard, Beauty, Choice, and Pain. John's experience was tragically similar to Bart's inter-kitchen quest; sometimes John snagged a cupcake, other times he was shocked, recuperated, and continued. John's mythic quest explores the duality of Hazard and Choice through his hazardous encounter with Blevins, which ... them. The hazard arrived in the form of a scrawny rapscallion named Jimmy Blevins astride of a magnificent horse, his demeanor analogized exquisitely by Rawlins ...

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