Aporia

This term -- in its purest form -- reflects a lack of opening, or couched differently, a lack of opportunity. Rhetorically, it is about doubt, uncertainty, contradiction, paradox, the unsolvable conundrum. Trickster tales are full of the like, and how to get out of them, or at least make peace with their presence. When confronted with fire at both ends of a hole, trickster digs a new passageway. When surrounded by enemies, s/he diverts the one and outwits the other. Let us never forget that to be a trickster is to be clever and to survive, whatever it takes. There is always a way. Vive Le Trickster!