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Introduction: Trickster Mythology From Around the World |
| Section: CULTURE / FOLK WISDOM--TRICKSTER MYTHOLOGY FROM AROUND THE WORLD |
| Author: Roger L. Welsch |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 4,209 Words, 23,819 Characters |
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I can't remember how our conversation wound up going in that direction, but some students and I in a University of Nebraska class in folklore once found ourselves talking about American courtship customs. The conversation was fairly predictable for an undergraduate class but enthusiastic enough to keep my attention. The surprise came when we took a step back to what it is that Americans look for by way of a partner in their mating rituals.
I have spent some time thinking and writing about concepts of beauty, modesty, and courtship, and I thought I had such matters fairly well pinned down - that is, until a young man who had already established himself as particularly bright and intense, the sort of "nerd" serious professors find particularly malleable, spoke up with some indignatio...
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... powerful and weak."
"Precisely," said Mr. Turner.
What did he mean, "precisely"? Whatever he was indicating to me, "precisely" was not the word to describe the very different options I had offered him. Essentially, I had offered imprecision as an explanation for the nature of the trickster, and Mr. Turner had responded, "Precisely." Increasingly, I think Mr. Turner was right.
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