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A gambling tale
The meaning of the gambling story
Anancy gambles and is a winner, but the strange thing about many gamblers is that they secretly (subconsciously) want to loose, because loosing and then winning is a proof that you can be a winner; if you always win you are not a winner because you have not won against the odds (winning is a symbol of life over death in the gamblers subconscious). So Anancy wins but because he has beaten everyone in the town he is dissatisfied and must win against someone who is impossible to defeat, professor Chin-chin.
He asks Professor Chin-chin for a game not knowing that he can never win, because professor Chin-chin symbolizes the game that a gambler will always loose. So of course Anancy looses and he looses everything, the 'fat' that he gambles is really his life, he is so set back that he becomes bony (a symbol of death). In the final game Anancy is lucky and wins and asks not for money but for his fat back (his life), but Chin-chin is a cheat, the cheat that every gambler must suffer. Anancy chases Chin-chin but can never catch it, just as the gambler who looses feels he has been cheated but can never understand why and frets his life away worrying about the last and the next cheat that will defeat him. So the bird fowls on Anancy's head symbolizes Anancy's ultimate demise, but Anancy was lucky enough to have won the last game, so what he wins is his own life, he can never get the bird because he has been paid - he still lives.
Everal McKenzie
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An Anancy story about the perils of gambling
Told by Everal McKenzie
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