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Re: So many questions..

Posted By: MACK!
Date: SUN, 7/28/02, 6:21 a.m.

In Response To: So many questions.. (Dani)

: I have many many questions regarding the Kabuki series...
: some may even be unanswerable. Most are going to make
: me look like a complete idiot.. but I must ask because
: it is driving me batty!!!

: 1) Is Akemi actually a hermaphrodite or did she just tell
: the doctor that to freak her out?

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
: the same Emi from Kabuki? The dancing queen?

Again, aren't these mysteries fun! Connect the dots!

: 3) Is it just me or is Yukio really sexy?

So I hear :) I trust you did recognise Yukio in the Metamorphosis story.

: 4) Will we ever see Akemi again? (I WANT AN AKEMI
: SERIES!!!!!)

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
: drives me.. )

Another great Koan.

: Unquestioningly yours,
: Dani

Thanks for the un-questions :)

DM

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