tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:204177 one hundred and one lokis! one hundred and one lokis! 2012-08-23T13:30:56Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:204177:8688 2012-08-23T13:30:04Z 2012-08-23T13:30:56Z public 0 <span style="line-height:150%;font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:120%;font-style:normal;">&ldquo;</span> No figure in literature, oral or written, baffles us quite as much as the trickster. He is positively identified with creative powers, often bringing such defining features of culture as fire or basic food, and yet constantly behaves in the most antisocial manner we can imagine. Although we laugh at him for his troubles and his foolishness and are embarrassed by his promiscuity, his creative cleverness amazes us and keeps alive the possibility of transcending the social restrictions we regularly encounter. <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:120%;font-style:normal;">&rdquo;</span></span><p> <div style="float: right;margin: 0 3em 1.5em 4.5em;text-indent: -1.5em;">&#8213; Barbara Babcock-Abrahams, "A Tolerated Margin of Mess: The Trickster and his Tales Reconsidered," <em>Journal of the Folklore Institute</em> 11/3 (1975): 147</div> <div style="clear:both;"> <small>[ <a href="http://101lokis.tumblr.com/post/29340181534/no-figure-in-literature-oral-or-written-baffles">tumblr</a> entry ]</small></div></p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=loki&ditemid=8688" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments