<p><em><u>Trolling with the Fisher King</u></em> started with the author&rsquo;s fascination with Amfortas in Wolfram von Eschenbach&rsquo;s <em>Parzival</em>, whose mission was to protect the Holy Grail, the container that unites suffering and love, his inevitable distraction by the outer world and subsequent betrayal of the mission after sustaining a wound in battle that would not heal.&nbsp; Paul Pines uses the tools Jung employed in his confrontation with the unconscious in <em>The Red Book,</em> gathering symbolic patterns and inter-disciplinary connections to interrogate his personal experience and what he finds in the world within and around him.</p><p>As a fisherman/seaman touched by war zones and wastelands in Viet Nam and the Bowery, a poet/therapist who has worked with his own wounds, and those of others, author Paul Pines believes that the Fisher King&rsquo;s wounding can be understood as a function that speaks to our post-internet condition on the border of survival and extinction.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>