Employing the methods of symbolic history, Marvin Bram explores the human condition in poetic, prose, and dramatic forms. His poems are "contrapuntal," asking for an ancient kind of meditative reading. The prose pieces take up matters to which symbolic history, a discipline created by Professor Bram, is uniquely suited. These and related matters are given new contexts in a play, Ancestors, and two screenplays, Songs of the Morning Journey and Higher Education.