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“Trick” is dólos in Homeric
Greek, and the oldest known use of the term refers to a quite specific
trick: baiting a good to catch a fish. East and west, north and
south, this is the oldest trick in the book. No trickster has
ever been credited with inventing a potato peeler, a gas meter, a
catechism, or a tuning fork, but trickster invents the fish trap.
—Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World (1998)
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