Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Coming Alive to Other Senses /300 — FOR THE WILD
forthewild.worldThe Old Testament God rules with a heavy hand over a static moral world, but I believe that our world is instead presided over by an alternate entity, Coyote, the Native American deity, an indestructible, lecherous, hilarious, and improvisational trickster, straying into and surviving catastrophe (a little like his simplified great-grandson, Chuck
... See moreRebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
The Old Testament God rules with a heavy hand over a static moral world, but I believe that our world is instead presided over by an alternate entity, Coyote, the Native American deity, an indestructible, lecherous, hilarious, and improvisational trickster, straying into and surviving catastrophe (a little like his simplified great-grandson, Chuck
... See moreRebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
But it was the “twenty miles to Joplin” story that helped me understand what Ronnie meant by “let them tell themselves the story.” Ti took a regular fishing trip with two buddies. On one particular trip, driving to the fishing hole, the three men saw a work crew on the opposite side of the roadway, installing a sign that read: 20 miles to joplin. T
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