Parabola's Fall 2001 Issue: The Fool The fool is a figure of reversal, of rules cast aside and the normal order of things turned inside-out. --from "A Fool's Hope" Cover:Detail from The Zen Master Seiogyu By Kano Naizen (1517-1616). One of a pair of hanging scrolls, ink on paper. Momoyama period. Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation. Photograph courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In this issue:
- "A Fool's History of Human Civilization" by Joy Thompson - Or, a history of Everyman
- "Falling and Rising in Love" by Rama Devagupta - The story of Laila and Majnu
- "At Home in the Land of the Little Green Waiting-Maid " by Nan Runde - A look at the youngest brother in fairy tales
- "Holy Folly" by Philip Zaleski - One who turns the world's values upside down
- "Another Kind of Hero" by Frederick Franck - The true tale of Tyl Ulenspiegel
- "Taigu Ryokan: The Great Fool" by Larry Smith - A radical Zen poet
- "Percivale and the Grail" by Anna-Marie Ferguson - "An innocence that bestows knowledge"
- "A Fool's Hope" by Shanti Fader - In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth
- "Poet and Clairvoyant" by Enid Welsford - Voices of inspiration
- "Fooling the Monsters, Fooling Themselves" by Joseph Bruchac - Delights of Trickster, once again
- "A Well-done Deed Brings Sweetness" From The Dhammapada - A cautionary note
- "A Child of Providence" by Gary Eberle - Shakespeare's beloved fools
- "What Kind of Errand?" by Ptolemy Tompkins - Eccentricities of a shaman
- "The Alchemy of the Teapot" by J. L. Walker - The simpleton's worth in the way of Tea
- "Zero in the Tarot" by MJ Stone - The round of meaning in the cards
Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world
- "Viddhi! Kooshmãndam" / Hindu - translated by Reade Wood
- "How Tyl Ulenspiegl Got His Name" / Flemish - retold by Paul Jordan-Smith
- "Too Heavy" / Persian - retold by Alice Geer Kelsey
- "Solutions" / Jewish (Chelm) - retold by Josepha Sherman
- "One God or Many Gods?" / Hindu - retold by D. K. M. Kartha
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