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Yike.
The stories we live reveal us.
Spoke yesterday with a fascinating woman, named Laurie, from Santa Cruz. She worked development for non-profits for years and will help with Aiki Extensions outreach materials, editing, etc. Her regular job is as Campus Ombuds at UC Santa Cruz. Her outside Job is in Environmental Conflict Resolution (multi-stake settlement agreements) by contract, mutual gains, interest based. She has definite and long term interest in international Peace, was a Peace Corps volunteer, combines Aikido and NVC and did her UC Berkeley Senior Thesis on Campbell Hero 1000 Faces and tie-ins to African culture, Odyssey, & the Palm Wine Drinkard (below) story. I was pleased to be reminded of it, as I'm a fan of the genre into which the Odyssey (and Orpheus, and Heart of Darkness, and...) falls. We'll meet in person at some point because her 25yr old daughter (engineer working for Conservation Solutions on Harrison St.) lives and works in Oakland.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Palm-Wine_Drinkard
The Palm-Wine Drinkard (subtitled "and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town") is the novel that gained Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola acclaim in the West and criticism at home. The book was based on Yoruba folktales, but was largely his own invention using Pidgin English prose. It told the mythological story of a man who follows a palm wine tapster into the land of the dead or "Deads' Town." There he finds a world of magic, ghosts, demons, and supernatural beings. The book came out in 1952 and received accolades from Dylan Thomas as well as other Western intellectual figures of the time. However among many African intellectuals it caused controversy and received harsh criticism. In Nigeria, in particular, some feared the story showed their people in a negative light. Specifically, that it depicted a drunk, used Pidgin English, and promoted the idea Africans were superstitious. However Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe defended Tutuola's works stating the stories in it can also be read as moral tales commenting on Western consumerism.
Imagining the World: Mythical Belief Versus Reality in Global Encounters p138 by O. R. Dathorne
Anais Nin - "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
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Yike.
The stories we live reveal us.
Spoke yesterday with a fascinating woman, named Laurie, from Santa Cruz. She worked development for non-profits for years and will help with Aiki Extensions outreach materials, editing, etc. Her regular job is as Campus Ombuds at UC Santa Cruz. Her outside Job is in Environmental Conflict Resolution (multi-stake settlement agreements) by contract, mutual gains, interest based. She has definite and long term interest in international Peace, was a Peace Corps volunteer, combines Aikido and NVC and did her UC Berkeley Senior Thesis on Campbell Hero 1000 Faces and tie-ins to African culture, Odyssey, & the Palm Wine Drinkard (below) story. I was pleased to be reminded of it, as I'm a fan of the genre into which the Odyssey (and Orpheus, and Heart of Darkness, and...) falls. We'll meet in person at some point because her 25yr old daughter (engineer working for Conservation Solutions on Harrison St.) lives and works in Oakland.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Palm-Wine_Drinkard
The Palm-Wine Drinkard (subtitled "and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town") is the novel that gained Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola acclaim in the West and criticism at home. The book was based on Yoruba folktales, but was largely his own invention using Pidgin English prose. It told the mythological story of a man who follows a palm wine tapster into the land of the dead or "Deads' Town." There he finds a world of magic, ghosts, demons, and supernatural beings. The book came out in 1952 and received accolades from Dylan Thomas as well as other Western intellectual figures of the time. However among many African intellectuals it caused controversy and received harsh criticism. In Nigeria, in particular, some feared the story showed their people in a negative light. Specifically, that it depicted a drunk, used Pidgin English, and promoted the idea Africans were superstitious. However Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe defended Tutuola's works stating the stories in it can also be read as moral tales commenting on Western consumerism.
Imagining the World: Mythical Belief Versus Reality in Global Encounters p138 by O. R. Dathorne
Anais Nin - "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
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