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Revision as of 18:16, 18 August 2008
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Description of the Diorama
The Happy Family. A diorama display featuring the Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) (also: “Cross Fox”) and the Rabbit (Leporidae immanus, or Lepus miniatus [immanus] absentis manus) (also: “Bunny”).
Displayed with mosses, lichens including red-tipped clidonia and others.
Descriptive text from the combined Main Street Museum, Chadbourne Thaumaturgium exhibition
For this Exhibition our mascot is the fox, here emblematic of the trickster myth. The Trickster. That ubiquitous figure in the therianthropic human mythos who appears and re-appears as Huck Finn; Brier Rabbit; Hermes; the Winnebago Coyote, et al. He is both shape-shifter and boundary transgressor of ludic liminality; often a politician getting out of crisis as a modern stage magician denying the laws of physics. Thus, the Trickster has been grist for editorial cartoonists and other chroniclers of the passing scene. —Montague Chadbourne
