Saturday, February 16, 2008

Tareva - Week 4

In class this week you read some sentences out loud from papers of the past with poor grammar. One of the papers you read from mentioned the "third eye." I sat back and watched half the class think that she meant a literal third eye (I was part of that half by the way) and the other half of the class acknowledge that, because of the context, she must have meant the religious third eye that views everything spiritually. I was thinking, "What the hell?! I've never even heard of that! And I'm pretty religious!" But what that made me realize is that a person who didn't know the relisious meaning of a third eye would have never made that connection, with or without the context. Isn't it crazy to think that unless we know everything about everything we might miss something?

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