Hi there! My first blog, well, we're supposed to do this about the things we learn, read, and review in class. Although, I am new so I'm testing the waters... I read the passage, Writing and the Threshold life. What an odd piece it was I must say. It was overwhelming and confusing. I kept reading though and I realized that there was more than one meaning in the essay. Basically, Komachi in the past she was a gorgeous woman and all the men found her attractive. One everyone loved. Then everyone began shunning her, even the most common people found her worth hating. So she went into the woods away from society. She was sitting on a stump one day, as two priests walk by. They become alarmed. ALAS, Komachi is sitting on BUDDHA, not a stump... Komachi insists that it's truly only a stump. The two preists say yet again, it is sculpted in the shape of buddha's body. They claim it is because she is heartless and that is why she fails to see buddha's body in the stump. She says it is only because she recognized buddha's body and claims because it is lying down, why shouldn't she too rest. They argued back and forth until the two preists see reason that it is truly, only a stump.
This play shows that there are many different, and possible odd thresholds to overcome. And in the sense of writing, you have to pass the creativity threshold and make a story. Hell, in anything in life there are thresholds to cross. In any obstacle in your life, there has to an obstacle or two to have success and balance in your life. On a different note, I really hope we can come to an agreement on the topics. I SINCERELY hope we agree on Sexuality or Gender, I'm very interested in those topics. See you tomorrow. Until next time!
Always in english,
Kaitlin (Kaci) Dee
