{Thanks to Thought & Memory without whom I'd've forgotten...}
Coyote has been on my mind for the last few weeks or so.
Couldn't figure out why; and now I wonder if Monkey didn't have something to do with it...
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Thought perhaps a passing reference to Thomas King had reminded me of one of his Massey Lectures in which he tells a great Coyote story. Or maybe it was Neil Gaiman's eye~opening interpretation of The Big Bad Wolf {you know, BBW of Little Red Riding Hood fame}. But that's only enough reason for Coyote to come to mind once and then again twice...
Anyways, for the past few weeks I'd been musing on what fascinated me about Coyote's character. He is so unlike the usual suspects in the fairytales that I grew up with; and at the time, I couldn't think of any other characters who were like him.
Yet every day for the past few weeks I've been seeing references to the upcoming Year of the Monkey.
And I hadn't made the connection.
*Duh.*
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I'd like to see a story in which Coyote & Monkey mix it up a little. Of course, showing up in each other's stories would mean breaking convention... but somehow, I'm sure neither of them would mind at all...