Re: CHAT: Re : Tricksters (was Re: _Kantjil_: CHAT: Vexillology and games (was: Re: Fl...
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 22, 2000, 16:58 |
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At 02:12 22.6.2000 -0400, Lassailly@AOL.COM wrote:
> >
> > I have - for a longtime - felt a strong kinship to Trickster figures,
> > esp'ly Sun Wu K'ung, Chinese Trickstergod, a.k.a. "Monkey", Sage Equal to
> > Heaven, Tripmaster Monkey, Col. Sun, etc..
> > So much so that I feel like I am co-inhabited by Sun Wu K'ung.
> >
> > zHANg
Sun Wukong in Pinyin, IIRC.
(Totally irrelevant, but related: close to where I used to live was a
Cantonese restaurant called Sun Wok. Guess what we used to call the owner,
who was a real stone-face!? (Well, we didn't say it *to* his face.)
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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