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Re: So many questions.. Posted By: MACK! In Response To: So many
questions.. (Dani) : I have many many questions regarding the Kabuki series... : 1) Is Akemi actually a hermaphrodite or did she just tell I'm going to have to let the books and Akemi speak for themselves on
this one. I get a lot of questions about Akemi, but I avoid answering
definitve questions about Akemi. The reason for this is that different
readers percieve the nature of Akemi in different ways. And I like to
think that each of these ways of viewing Akemi is valid. The truth is that
Akemi is un-definable. She does not fit into conventional classifications
of any sort.
Remember that Akemi defies being pinned down and labeled. She resists
any labeling. She likes to see the butterfly alive and flying with its
mysteries intact rather than pinned down and labeled on the insect
collection. She also considers herself to be in constant evolution and
transformation. So any label that you give her, no matter how accurate at
that moment, may be completely obselete in the next moment. Like her
origami, Akemi can be two dimensional and three dimensional or somewhere
in between the shape of what is being folded, or in the process of being
folded into another shape.
Remember that we did not even see Akemi for a long time. In the entire
Skin Deep series she exists only through her messages. So you first get
used to thinking of Akemi by however you imagine her in your own mind.
She is a catalyst for Kabuki. And hopefully for the readers too. She is
the first person to accept Kabuki unconditionally and to see beyond the
scars and and classifications that Kabuki was labeled with.
I belive that you can reread the entire Akemi sections of the Kabuki
series and have completely different stories depending on how you
personally view Akemi at different times. Instead of giving you definite
singular ways to view things, Akemi is a great character because she
forces Kabuki (and more importantly the READER) to think of things in a
non-singular. non-stationary way of mutli-possibilities.
: 2) Is the Emi from the Agents of the Noh: Scarab series Again, aren't these mysteries fun! Connect the dots!
: 3) Is it just me or is Yukio really sexy?
So I hear : 4) Will we ever see Akemi again? (I WANT AN AKEMI Akemi is DEFINITELY a major part of the future stories for me.
: 5) Is Buddha really Buddha??
Congratulations! I think you just made a KOAN! Thinking about that
question you proposed will really get you to the heart of the matter.
Because it leads to some other great questions, that will also be great to
consider and tear away more parts of the graph.
: I SEEK THE ANSWERS!!!! (It is truly the question that Another great Koan.
: Unquestioningly yours, Thanks for the un-questions DM ------ Messages In This Thread ------
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