Showing posts with label Trickster Makes This World. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trickster Makes This World. Show all posts

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Trickster chapters 5-11

Page 116, Ifa (destiny) and Eshu (accident)
"seem so much at ods ar the best of friends"

Page 120, ""Eshu is understood to have gotten one of the creator gocs drunk at the begninning of time".
"Eshu .. delights in mishap as well as good hap".

Page 124
Luck is the residue of design. Love sacrifice of food at crossroads, town gates, roadsides, the bush, the mahogany tree, the rubbish heap, beach next to a waterway.

Page 127 "There are designs in this world, but there are aldo chance events, which means design is never finished"

128, "I do not seek, I find" (Picasso)

135, "Hermes of the Marketplace - leave money, cover your ears, walk, uncover and listen, the first thing you hear is your answer"

176, "dirt is always a by-product of creating order".

228, "Douglas knows he's at the edge of a sacred meadow because the alarm goes off, the watchdogs start barking".

229, impudent shamelessness.
Pudere = to feel shame

233 "contradictions's cousins, irony and scorn"

264 "to translate is to betray"

265 Trickster story contains trickster telling the story of his own creation, self reflective inclusion.

267 Levi-Strauss cited


Wednesday, February 22, 2012

trickster chapter 4

P 96; "His aimlessness makes him an embodiment of uncertainty".
"The Poetic Edda" (book on Norse myths)
P 100; "the shape shifting mind pesters the distinction between accident and essence and remakes the world out of whatever happens" (other important parts on this page).
"accidents happen in time, essences reside in eternity"

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Trickster

Page 83: look for book of tales "Nex Perce Texts" by Archie Phinney.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Trickster chapter 3

Page 63; "if the trickster were free of all appetite, he would no longer be trickster"
P. 65; "nothing is significant until it's portable".
P69; Wherever travelers carry stories from place to place, there will be re imaginings, translations, appropriation, and impurities".
P.72; "his (Krishna's) lies subvert what seemed so clear a truth just moments ago".
P. 75-76; inventor of language
P77; "Truth are illusions about which it has been forgotten that they are illusions" (Nietzsche.
P. 78 (a trickster) "can debunk an illusion.

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Trickster chapter 2

Trickster Makes this World
Page 28: Killing the magic cow, reminds me of the ribbon around neck story, note to Rob H.
Page 46, "opportunity" is an entrance or passage through
Page 49: exploit and frustrate opportunity.
Page 51: multiple meanings, disguised meanings, contextual meanings, ambiguity.
Page 52: "present a different aspect of yourself to each of your friends ... cleverness is more valuable than inflexibility".

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Trickster book intro

I began reading "Trickster Makes This World; mischief, myth, and art" by Lewis Hyde.
Mostly I just read the introduction and a few other pages today. May inspire some storytelling ideas. Interesting to note how trickster breaks the rules except when all the rules are being broken and then he creates the boundaries. Also, the idea that one needs to travel to break the boundaries of society so tricksters becomes protectors of the travelers.