Favorite Inexplicable Book

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[...] Now, if you want weird, try "America Needs
Indians!" by
Iktomi, which I've read not once but TWICE.

i must say i'd find it difficult to resist opening a book with a title
like that. what kind of indians does america need, and why, according to
the author?

Presumably American Indians -- "Iktomi" is, if memory
serves, the Lakota word for the spider (or sometimes
coyote) "the trickster" -- the mythological/supernatural
being that delights in confounding people and generally
turning their perceptions upside-down. Some of the stories
about his interactions with humans are humorous, and
some are scary -- much like those about "the little people"
in Celtic/Pictic legends -- because they involve a total lack
(or an entirely alien concept) of morality. Kinda like a few of
the people who sell books on ebay, actually.

Don Fitch

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Presumably American Indians -- "Iktomi" is, if memory
serves, the Lakota word for the spider (or sometimes
coyote) "the trickster" -- the mythological/supernatural
being that delights in confounding people and generally
turning their perceptions upside-down. BRBR

Indeed. The man writing as "Iktomi" more than once in the text alludes to
identifying himself with that entity.


--
"Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor
citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang, as when
single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang."

--Benjamin Franklin

In article ,
otcom (Courtney Love) wrote:

Today there are still a handful of World War I survivors, and these
World War I
survivors were born to parents who could have grown up just after the
Civil
War

Or served alongside someone whose father fought at Waterloo...six degrees
and all that!