[UA] Cannibal Avatar?

[Unseenlibrarian at aol.com]

Timothy Ferguson wrote:> 
> Have people -ever- embodied the Trickster?  I mean, it's always some
> fox-God, or Loki, or Merlin or some other shapeshifting God-prophet freak.
> Is there anyone who actually says "I'm going to help people along by making
> them look like absolute asses, you better believe it bub!" and
> actually -does- it?  I'm willing to give you Orson Welles for the Martians
> landing, and maybe the guy who designed the Man Who Never Was, or the
> Magician from the Second World War...but I'm not sure any of these people
> really had ritual intent...

WWII seems particularly ripe with examples of what could be the Trickster at work. I mean, there was Project X-ray (Let's release exploding bats over Tokyo!) the Man who never was, the whole phantom army bit, where actual life scale models of military material were produced to decoy the Germans. And who's to say the Philadelphia experiment wasn't the grandest trick of all?

Phil




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