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Contrarywise

by Zohra Greenhalgh


With Love
To the Deviant Denizens of Lytheria:
Past, Present, and Future
Especially to Lee Schneider
Who Provided the Refuge in the First Place

Acknowledgments

Hearty thanks to my mother who provided my Big Brother (typewriter) in
the nick of time; to my father for his gracious grant in 1984; to Jean Marie
Stafford for an early vote of confidence and those wild family dinners which
first inspired the Panthe'kinarok; to the late Jane RobertsтАФteacher, mystic,
and pioneerтАФher husband Rob Butts, and the rest of the regular class
rowdies for their blessed spiritual irreverence (especially the "Boys from
New York"), to Seth himself for his disarming and devastating model of the
Tricky Teacher, to the Sumari for ancient songs that linger just out of mind,
to Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan for reminding me of Splendour; to the generous
Yellow Springs of Ohio for iron medicine and the concept of landdraw; to my
editor Terri Windling for early morning coffee and spirited courage; to the
countless musicians to whose work I listened while writingтАФespecially to
those gentle heretics Ron Romanovsky and Paul Phillips; to my agent Val
Smith who has a "soft spot" in her heart for Trickster; to Karen Pauli for
Utter Chocolate Decadence; to David Bowie (whom I've never met) for his
pied-eyed Jinnjirri visuals; to Professors Bruce Stark and Harold Scheub of
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Madison respectively for
Tricksterish lectures on Loki and Uncle Tompa; to Keith Stafford for his
insight regarding artistic sketches and his gift of Everywhen; to the Room 9
Hearthhags for their female presence and creative heroism; to the Hearth
for messages; to Midori Snyder for fight scene specifics; to Charles and
Mary Ann de Lint for writerly support when it was sorely needed; to
Stephanie for tea; to my sister Sarah for fierce faith; to Kato Hayden for
sheer exuberance; to David Piselli for being absolutely Contrary; to Anja for
ambulatory walking sticks; to the Coffee Trader of Milwaukee for many
hours of conversation and livelihood; to J.D. LaBash for impromptu talks on
molecular biology and "selfish DNA"; to Marjorie Shyne and her daughter,
Patti, for introducing me to the East Coast ditty "Dicky Dunkin'"; to Judy
Frabotti for bringing me the concept of "the group" at the right moment; to
Ardvesura Krafft for sounding my heart during a stolen, fierce week in
August; to Kathe Ann for the storyteller's perspective; to the scattered cast
of The Seven Rooms for patience; to Grace Daley for the pun on her name;
to the seen and unseen participants in my Lake Michigan Naming Ceremony
for that new dawn; to my Grandmother Marie Walbridge Greenhalgh for
"trust fund" teach-ing; to Mark Arnold for rampant tomatoes and solitude
when it was needed; to my gray-haired, gold-eyed cat, RimbleтАФfor his
impossible, four-legged displays of claiming affection; to Gary Cone for the