the eight forms of trickster
    animal trickster
        raven
        coyote
        fox
        rabbit
        spider
        mantis
    human trickster
        Loki
        Eshu
        Hermes
    elemental trickster
        whirlwind
        storm [Susa-no-o]
        sea
    sacred clown [see Clowns]
        heyoka
        mudhead [Pueblo]
        hano [Pueblo]
    wildman
        leshy
        will-o-the-wisp
    jester
        Dossenus [Atellanae]
        Pseudolus
    fool
        Tom Fool
        Buffone
        Bucco [Atellanae]
        Maccus [Atellanae]
    lord of misrule
        King Carnivale[e]
        King of the Mad
        Abbot of Unreason
        [see Humor]
the trap of appetite
    the fish trap
    bait thief
        neither predator or prey
    mortality [meat]
    immortality [bones]
monotropic vs polytropic
    my way vs no way [all ways]
    generalist
    skin shifting
the art of lying
    fabulation [fabulous]
    creativity & invention
    imagination
theft
    not from want or greed but to escape the strictures of culture
        access to spiritual plenty beyond human structures
    true and falsehood
    upsetting old boundaries [and establishing new boundaries]
    "how can I steal what we own?"
"accidents" and change
    the attempt to impose order
    binding the trickster invites destruction
the crossroads
    the coincidence of unrelated causes
    accident as the source of true innovation
    standing between two worlds [sacred and profane]
happy accident / the lucky find
    coming from outside the nets of recipocity
        zero-sum game
    dumb luck and smart luck
    presence of mind
    opening up to the world
shameless speech and speechless shame
    Monkey and Tripitaka
    shame culture
        someones watching
    guilt culture
        conscious is watching
    satire
dirt work
    divides and separates
    bridging the two worlds
    dirt as by product of order
    order excludes
    dirt enriches and fertilizes order
        rejection of dirt sterilizes
    dirt rituals
        stories
            entertaining that forbidden by order
        festivals
            carnival
culture as a trap
    gift and theft
    clean and dirty
    modest and shameful
    essense and accidence
    the marginalized undoing the snare that holds them
    the trap of opposition
dweller on the threshold
    go for the "joints" or weak points
    "art" [joint work]
        trickster as joint-worker
            flexibility
            new connections
plenitude of the "natural" world
    variegated
    polymorphic
 
Buffo: The Genius of Vulgar Comedy - Anthony Caputi
Trickster Makes the World - Lewis Hyde