ABSTRACT
Let me give two examples, beginning with a rather straightforward example from Zuni, where the telling of myths and personal narratives still goes on today. This is a short story about Coyote, a trickster hero, and Old Lady Junco, who puts him in his place.2 This version was recorded by Dennis Tedlock and published in his important book, Finding the Center (1972). If one wants a sense of the life of this kind of literature, it is a wonderful book to look at because the presentation on the page in lines does something crucial, something that is only beginning to be done. It slows down and guides the eye. One reads for form as well as for information (Burke, 1941).
