[DMB] I was wondering about the "Trickster" part and wondered if (even hoped) Campbell was an influence. Thanks for that too. Now I have a hunch that maybe this trickster is friends with the contrarian, even though that's a Lila thing.
[Arlo] Early on, Frentz describes the trickster as "a rule-bending, humor-laced outsider who contests rigid organizational rules without threatening the people who uphold them." (In Chapter 13, he talks about a friend of his who rolled for a while with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and although he does not mention this again, the language of that movement ventriloquates throughout the book.) A bit later, he adds, "Tricksters are more than mischievous misfits. Like Prometheus and Hermes, 'tricksters are regularly honored as the creators of culture.'... In their best moments, tricksters reveal ways of living that excite others to thought and action. As such, they are rhetors in the classical sense, instructing, cajoling, and challenging others to live a more humane existence." (p.23) I'm not through this enough to really speak to a direct, or more elaborate, mapping of the trickster to the contrarian, but its hard not to get some sense of that when reading his book. It does seem, though, that his 'trickster' aligns more with what may be 'deliberate' attempts to break conventions than, at least in LILA's brujo example, more of an 'unintended consequence'. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
