“There is no way to suppress change . . . not even in heaven,” Lewis Hyde wrote in his book Trickster Makes This World. “Those who panic and bind the Trickster choose the [path of control and cataclysm]. It would be better to learn to play with him, better especially to develop skills (cultural, spiritual, artistic) that allow some commerce with accident, and some acceptance of the changes that contingency will always engender.”
