dream_of_a_dog amy in red Toelken is not alone in presenting the Trickster as playing with our minds, crossing boundaries from "native" to "modern" worlds. Thomas King's novel Green Grass, Running Water, which, among many things, is about the problems of "native" and "modern" worlds coexisting in the contemporary United States, opens with a prologue that begins in a place familiar with the opening of Genesis will recognize: "So. In the beginning, there was nothing. Just the water.". King then continues to posit the entire world, the entire history of earth and all it's cultures down through the ages and culminating in our time and our social/political struggles, to be nothing but a figment of the Trickster's imagination. Even more it is not just Coyote's creation, but actually the result of a dog in one of Coyote's dreams who gets everything backward and so -- according the Coyote-- imagines himself to be g-o-d. Our whole world, then, is the backward mess of a dog dream in the subconscious mind of, but not fully controlled by, the notorious mischiefmaker himself. You'd have to laugh in a world like that, even when disaster and heartache happen at every turn." .From the chapter on the Trickster in Myth and Knowing by Leonard and McClure. 120524 ... PeeT frida, my 8 month old chihuahua, is a dream of a dog. she is in training to become a clown dog. a long, arduous process indeed. 120525 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Longer version of a dream_dog. Waddles like a wiener dog? Anyway, this showed up in my three_words and brought a smile. A line to a thread of memory, a thread of narrative running through of a novel I liked: Green Grass, Running Water. 240702 ... e_o_i edits Too many "of"s. The spirit of a dog's shushed woof has gotten into this. 240702 what's it to you? who go blather from