User:Kiwimystic

In my sandbox is a draft new page: mythistory.

I tried to use the cite button and entered the text source details, but the error message on the page was the result - consulting the help page indicated there failed to elucidate whatever error I made.

Just above that is the website address of the essay I wrote preparatory to the draft article. To produce the latter I deleted all personal content that explained how the book impacted on me when it was first published.

Both essay and draft contain original insights of my own along with relevant social commentary and analysis: the website link is included to enable readers to access the source of that. McNeill made it clear that he was merely introducing the concept, which was presumably why he didn't define it. Online investigation reveals that the import of the concept is more tacitly accepted than spelt out, so I felt obliged to remedy that lack.

I began reading history at age 7 (with a 5oo page History of the British Empire published 1899 which I still own) and read Homer's Odyssey and the Illiad the same year (1956/7). I read all other books of myths available in the library as a child, and having been reading histories (preferably revisionist, biographical, and alternative) ever since.

My city library lacks a copy of Mythistory by J Mali, 2003, but I have requested it via interloan. Presuming this yields a copy from a library elsewhere in this country, I'm likely to add further content from that sometime soon.

I will now seek the technical help necessary to make the new page available in suitable form.

Dennis Frank, 25/5/13

--Kiwimystic (talk) 00:23, 25 May 2013 (UTC)