From: Peterfabriani@aol.com
Date: Mon Nov 04 2002 - 20:09:11 GMT
In a message dated 11/4/02 4:49:27 PM GMT Standard Time, speterson@fast.net
writes:
> I don't think DQ has anything to do
> with the traditional idea of the hero.
Hello super Steve,
In African American slave culture there were wonder tales. Wonder tales are
invented in the moment and display the quick wit inventiveness of the
storyteller. Not only is the storyteller valued for his/her speed, but the
story itself emphasises the value of creative speed in all aspects of
experience. The stories tell of a boy being chased through the land and
culture of black slaves by the fastest and most dynamic being, Mister
Greensnake, a plantation master. No matter how extraordinary the
transformations of the boy in order to escape Greensnake, the master is
always hot on the boys heels; the boy may change into a bird, a fish, a gold
ring on a girls finger, a mustard seed, but Greensnake ever becomes the
Eagle, the Crocodile, the rich suitor, the seed pecking hen. This art form is
a wonderful allegory of life as a balance between Dynamic change and static
being it seems to me.
Peter.
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