This dreaming again. is it the same as the other dreaming in the poem collection we read last time? if anyone knows for sure let me know.

I think this is saying that we were all once one with each other but our ambition separated us and isolated us from each other through the formation of different languages. God made us able to speak on language to help us communicate and build but over time we lost that one ness.

There seems to be a lot of emphasis on “the dreaming.” I don’t really understand what it means. Do they mean literal dreaming of it talking about prophets and how dreams tell you what will happen in the future? If so, it makes sense why the older generations would stress the importance because I know it a lot of older cultures there was a big emphasize on prophetic dreams. Or is it talking about ambitions and that’s why the older generations see it as something dangerous? It means that the younger generations are trying to change the ways of the old.

This reminds me in native Americans for some reason. The struggles that the natives went through to survive once America was found by the Europeans. It also reminds me of how much their culture and cultures have been lost for pointless reasons. For instance, take Mount Rushmore. They took what was considered sacred ground to carve some stupid faces into the mountain. Not only that but it if of the faces of people that were responsible for killing so many of their people.

I think this passage really plays into how much trauma the events that happened in Haiti had on him. He can't take pictures and feel secure for fear that someone will oneday recognize his face and he will be brought to justice for all of the atrocities from his youth. I can't imagine how devastating it must have been for him to deny his own daughter the right to sell her artworks since it used him as the inspiration and depicted him. corse this seams like he just does not like the way he looks but we will soon find out there is a lot more to what meets the eye.

That is really disturbing to me. I had no idea that it was such a problem. I wonder if it is still the same now.

I don’t know why but this section seams morbid to me. First there was the creepy section where he was comforted by the thought that death would come instantly were he to fall and now this. I don’t understand why knowing you would die instantly would be of a comfort to anyone with the right frame of mind. Now when he is looking at a beautifully rare view of stars and t his mind also goes to something like death. Granted it is true but who really look at a star and say “AHHHH death....”

I think this really speaks to city life. I feel like there are people all around but sometimes it is the loneliest feeling place in the word. Everywhere else that I have gone seem to have a better community feeling while New York is verry self-involved and depressing in same ways. Nothing shows me how alone I am in the world than walking around the city and being lost in the herd of people.

This implies that she knows exactly what she is doing. It looks like to me she came here to make some trouble for him. Its funny how when he paid her the slightest complement, he is a beast wanting to sexually devour her, yet she is doing these implicitly provocative things and the moment he rejects her he is a boar. No matter what he does he loses in this scenario. If he gives in, he is a deviant and if he refuses her, he is a boar.

Maru choosing her for his wife brought up her people in ways that releasing the slave or eating with them did not. I think it's because the supposedly best of the best chose those who are supposedly below them for a wife. I think if it had been a person of less importance choosing a Masarwa, it would not have meant much or done anything for the Masarwa people. That person would have been seen as an idiots. The fact that Maru chose Margaret Cadmore empowered her people in the end.

I thought he was messed up from the start and his character did not sit well with me but this really shows it. He is a really statistical man. This is the women he supposedly loves, and he is finding joy in her suffering. I have the feeling she will end up with him and this just makes me super mad.

That must have been why they were not there that day. It like all of this is happening at one. She is losing the love of her life to her best friend and poor little Windscreen-wiper saw him mom being killed. They are both going mad with their losses.

Even in death where the poor women could do them no harm, she is still scorned for being who she is. Even in death she cannot escape prejudice. “hatred of the fortunate,” they have the fortune to hate those they don’t even know because they see themselves at better than them. Only those who see themselves a whole group of people for no reason than them being different. They do not like the difference in the other people and see it as something to be disgusted by.

This is an interesting statement to me. That is was only when they washed the body that their prejudice showed. I would think them not having washed her was a form of prejudice. If it was someone of a higher class, I bet they would not have had to be yelled at to do it.

I find is ironic and disturbing that of all people, scientists are also passing on this racism. The people that are supposed to be about logic and reasoning are saying that people are lesser because of their looks, empowering more racist thinking with pseudo facts that they pass on as scientific. They then justify their horrendous violation of humans rights by passing them on as something less than human, though is many ways the treatment they showed those people were treatments that no living creature should have to face, including animals.

I like this concept. That pain is a means of communication and a means of understanding between people.

I think it is saying that it is bad to have a government that does not care about the through, but is is much better than a government that says that it stands for the through. That makes sense to me because if you think about it it is how a lot of dictatorships get started. They have a strong "truth" that they enforce on others. In claiming that you speak of represent the truth, you can be invalidating someone else.

maybe this is a way to numb the pain. After repeated trams you tend to desensitize yourself as a means of coping with the pain.

This is a spell to stop the loop.To regain one’s wholeness as a human being. again the use of spell implies magic and something not of this world.

Now that i understand that she had been raped i wonder if the doctor had anything to do with it and that was why he was having cold sweats of if he had thought she was dead.

WAIT. what the hell did they do to her? I am so confused.