We meet one of the earliest images of the Fool archetype -the bagpipe-playing, Sola Busca Fool (1490) - and discover how this medieval loser or "zero", asks questions of us and our place in the world that we are perhaps only now starting to comprehend.

"The fool, the so-called insane creature, just like that anxiety provoking number or anti-number zero is a kind of provocation to everything within our physical as well as mental realm, everything that appears to “add up”, suggesting that when we are all stumbling across a rock-strewn stage of life, upon which we are very much stumbling now, that there is no ultimate essence in our conscious experience onto which we might cling, no matter how vivid any of it feels or seems, only surface, only dream, a plight that for many has been and will continue to be maddening in various ways."

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