The Eternal Paradox Of Faith

THE older I get, the easier it is to understand the meaning of myths and to accept to live with mysteries. Myths and mysteries co-exist in human life but they are not the same. Myths are stories, legends, fables, handed down through the centuries. They express, though they do not explain, what th

Imagination At Play In A Shadowy World

MILLENNIAL FABLES, By Peter Porter, Oxford University Press, $17.95. A LONG time ago, Peter Porter wrote of reading A Midsummer Night's Dream at school. His latest book has the epigraph from that play, ``The best in this kind are but shadows, and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them