Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 06:18:48 -0500 Subject: >at what price > >learn >ing > > what access does it really >give us.... > >? > as childhood heroes blur into present-day tyrants as childhood affections and hero-worship turns into the bitterness of knowing their is no hope [but perhaps? maybe? the clay may still melt off...and he may walk off the twisted pedestal and reach out throught cutting through the glass of his lonely pride?] ekalvya knows the thumb will never be sacrificed this is not the skill they know how to use arjuna's guru she may have idolized and learned from what she imagined was his skill his wisdom but what arjuna learned was a different skill legitimized perhaps but grasping on to approval approval never granted to shikhandi by bhishma or dronachaarya cannot be sought by ekalvya but they know that seeking such approval needing it would be a compromise a sacrifice of their self-educated self-honed thumbs... so shikhandi cannot be tinker-bell even though that may be the only voice they are willing to hear and legitimize as her possibility... ___________ Radhika Gajjala Bowling Green State University http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik http://www.cyberdiva.org http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000/4425/ "I am not erudite enough to be interdisciplinary, but I can break rules" - Spivak, 1999. "Just bear in mind, darling: Write Mortal. Think Witch" - Endora from "Bewitched" _____ __________
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