Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 09:24:07 -0400
Subject: mythologiesfictionsrealitiescyborgwati


what are the myths and fictions we dream of

we narrate
we re-narrate
we re-interpret
we absorb
we read?

        cyborgwati watched on screen as on another screen she typed
        her mythologiesfictionsandrealities began to intertwine...

        sita was laoma
        cyborgwati was xena

the son
his upbringing
was
crucial
to all

be
cause
in 
Man's world

a son
might be
a
lethal
weapon

per
haps

or 
not

a weak spot in her armor
per
haps
or
not

as she continued to read inbetween the popular and mythological
knowing that she was being blasphemous
to both
                melding sacred myths with commercialized screen-myths

readingforwisdomperhapsresistanceperhaps

not reality

perhaps.

as she materializes on MOO and another MOO - what fictionsandmyths might she
re
create

demolish

what understandings might she engender

or not.

dwelling in worlds of notreality
reading realities

escapingbutnot

...

does it have to be written to be narrated?
Radhika Gajjala
http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~radhik

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