



Still engaged with forms of reflection and knowledge formation and the tropological play of spoken ironies I am including some starting points for my feature in Nature Series Magazine.
As he was engaged in cleaning himself up, he happened to look in the water and much to his surprise saw many succulent plums. After surveying them very carefully, he dived down into the water to get some. But only small stones did he bring back in his hands. Again he dived into the water. But this time he knocked himself unconscious against a rock at the bottom. After a while he floated up and gradually came to. He was lying on the water, flat on his back and, as he opened his eyes, there on the top of the bank he saw many plums. It was then he realised that what he had seen in the water was only a reflection. “Well,” he says to himself, “and what a grand piece of foolishness that was! Had I recognised this before I might have saved myself a great deal of pain
Radin, Paul. The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology, Schocken Books, 1972, p.28.
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Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Ideas for Feature for 'Nature Series' Magazine
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