Document Type
Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Seven years ago now, I decided to embark upon a curious project: to write a novel of sorts, built of sixty-four chapters, each one a short story, each one based on one of the hexagrams or gua 卦 of the Chinese divinatory manual, the Book of Changes, or the Yijing 易經. I was interested in the relationship between creativity and divinatory techniques, in the idea of using divinatory methods as a tool for thinking, an interest that I owed, in part, to Italo Calvino’s maddeningly clever book, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, which tells series of interlinked stories by means of reading off grids of tarot cards; and I thought it might be fun to explore this further.
Repository Citation
Buckingham, Will. "Wrestling the Goat." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 13, no. 1, 2013, pp. 1–9. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol13/iss1/3