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Trickster Makes This World
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art | Lewis Hyde
In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old storiesHermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among othersand then holds them up against the lives and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. Twelve years after its first publication, Trickster Makes This Worldauthoritative in its scholarship, loose-limbed in its stylehas taken its place among the great works of modern cultural criticism. This new edition includes an introduction by Michael Chabon.
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NotCool
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“What does it mean to be free from the belly? It could be that those who claim such freedom are just well fed. The belly is less demanding when there is plenty to eat, after all, and one who is not buffeted by hunger if one is not regularly hungry… the well fed take the artifice of their situations and pass it off as an eternal verity.”

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Trickster stack

conorpunchbook So many books So little time 4y
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Gina
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I am still on my light summer reads for now but I am starting a list for when it's time to get deep.

https://fractalenlightenment.com/37502/life/7-books-that-will-shatter-your-perce...

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annamatopoetry
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Finishing up this week's reading for Trickster book club. Then I can start The Temptation to Exist!

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batsy
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"An enormous turd" from #heaven - apparently Carl Jung found some relief in visualising this image. (His father was a Protestant minister.) This is in the endlessly fascinating book by Lewis Hyde on the trickster spirit/figure in various world myths & religions. This chapter in particular is on the demarcation between the dirty, impure earthly realm, & the heavenly realm where gods reside (& how tricksters blur that boundary). #rockinmay @Cinfhen

LeahBergen 😂😂😂 7y
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