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was a Young Lady of Norway Who casually sat on a doorway.
Whenthe door squeezed her flat She exclaimed 'What of that'.
Thiscourageous Young Lady of Norway.There was an Old Man of
Cape Horn Who. wished he had never been bornSo he sat on a chair
Till he died of despair. That dolorous Man ofCape Horn. There was an
Old Person of Cromer Who stood. on one leg to read HomerWhen he
found he grew stiff He jumped over the cliff. Which concludedthat
Person of Cromer.There was an Old Man on some rocks Who. shut his
wife up in a boxWhen she said 'Let me out' He exclaimed. 'Without
doubt You willpass all your life in that box.'There was an Old. Person
of Bangor Whose face was distorted withanger He tore off his. boots
And subsisted on roots That irasciblePerson of Bangor.There was an
Old. Person of Spain Who hated all trouble and pain Sohe sat on a chair
With. his feet in the air That umbrageous OldPerson of Spain.There
was an Old. Person from Gretna Who rushed down the crater ofEtna
When they said 'Is. it hot' He replied 'No it's not' Thatmendacious Old
Person of. Gretna.There was a Young Lady of Parma Whose conduct
grew calmer and. calmerWhen they said 'Are you dumb' She merely
said 'Hum' That. provokingYoung Lady of Parma.There was an old
man of Hong Kong Who never did. anything wrong Helay on his back
With his head in a sack That innocuous. old man ofHong Kong.The
function of the Trickster according to. Kernyi is to adddisorder to order
and so make a whole to render. possible within thefixed bounds of what
is permitted an experience of. what is notpermitted (). Kernyi could just
as well be. describing thenonsense genre that emerged in the nineteenth
century.You desire. LIVE according to Nature Oh you noble Stoics
whatfraud of words. Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature
boundlesslyextravagant. boundlessly indifferent without purpose
orconsideration without. pity or justice at once fruitful and barrenand
uncertain imagine to. yourselves INDIFFERENCE as a
powerhowCOULD you live in accordance with such.
indifferenceContrary to the underlying Rousseauist ideology which
argues that. theprofound nature of the liberated subject can only be
good and thatnature. itself once emancipated cannot but be endowed
with naturalequilibrium and. all the ecological virtues there is nothing
moreambiguous or perverse than. a subject.Trickster is at one and the
same time creator and destroyer giver. andnegator he who dupes others
and who is always duped himself. He. willsnothing consciously. At all
times he is constrained to behave as hedoes. impulses over which he
has no control. He knows neither goodnor evil yet he. is responsible for
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