Microfiction: An Unexpected Friendship

 An Unexpected Friendship 

    There once lived a cat and a mouse in a house. They played chase & run every day. The mouse believed the cat wanted to catch and eat him and ran from him every day. What the mouse did not know was that the cat actually considered the mouse a friend. The reason for the chasing was that the cat wanted his owner to see that he hated the mouse and would not try to get another cat to replace him, that could possibly kill the mouse. 

Source: Tom & Jerry

(Old Twitter 140 characters)

    As expected, Kansas State University football team is 1-1 after games against Arkansas State and Oklahoma. 

-The first story is what I believe to be the truth of Tom & Jerry. When you watch the show with that on your mind, it will change your perspective entirely. The second story was a short tweet that is a bit sad. This past week, the OU football team lost to a 0-1 unranked Kansas State for the second year in a row. Kansas State had played Arkansas State, a FBS team, and lost. As a 3rd ranked team in the nation, it was quite an embarrassment for us to lose at home like that. I hope to see improvements from our football team and I still believe! 

(Image Information: Sooners blame no one but themselves; https://www.normantranscript.com/sports/ou_football/ou-football-sooners-blame-no-one-but-themselves-for-upset-loss-to-kansas-state/article_6ca03854-0051-11eb-b121-cbd65a45d9f5.html)

Reading Notes: Mahabharata Part B

 Mahabharata Online: Public Domain Edition; http://ouocblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/mahabharata-online-public-domain-edition.html 

-Due to the fact that Prince Vidura's mother was a slave girl, though he was half brother of King Pandu and of King Dhritarashtra, he could not reign over Hastinapura as king. 

-Suspicious of the cruel plot of Prince Duryodhana, Prince Vidura tells Pandavas and Queen Kunti to be careful of the palace at Varanavata.

-The palace at Varanavata's beauties were indescribable, however, all the furniture and tapestries were soaked in oil and the palace and roof were built only of wood or such other material as would easily burn.

-I like a strong antagonist to a story with an plan evil enough to wipe out the entire protagonist group. 

-Thanks to his wisdom and goodness of his heart, Prince Vidura was not able to keep his nephews the Pandavas from his mind. 

-Prince Vidura came up with a plan and set a very skillful miner to Varanavata to dig an underground passage which led from the floor of the palace into the woods outside. 

-The work was done by night and by day the miner hid his work by covering the mouh of the passage with wooden planks.

-Purochana, the mean captain had no clue that the Pandavas were planning to flee.

-Purochana was also waiting on a moonless night to burn the palace down with the people inside, which somewhat gave a deadline to the miner to finish the passageway.

-When the night came, the Pandavas and Queen Kunti walked through the passage into the forest.

-Wanting revenge, Prince Bhima crawled back to the guardhouse where Purochana the wicked captain lived, and set fire to the house.

-Purochana and the guards were engulfed and perished in the fire. 

-The ending would make a great movie ending as it shows the burned down city and one would think the protagonists are dead, but instead they see in the horizon, a family walking from the forest, alive. 

(Image Information: Forest fire; http://forestfiredetection.com/en/articles-news/38-how-to-escape-in-case-of-forest-fire)

Reading Notes: Mahabhrata Part A

 Mahabharata Online: Public Domain Edition; http://ouocblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/mahabharata-online-public-domain-edition.html

-Vyasa is the name of the author of the Mahabharata who arranged the Vedas. He did not trust any to write it down as no one was worthy of the task. 

-Brahma appears to tell Vysa that the god Ganesha would be his scribe. 

-"Vyasa is not only the composer of the Mahabharata; he is also a character in the epic."

-A king named Uparichara of Chedi so devoted to asceticism was feared by the gods themselves of the possibility of robbing them of their powers. 

-Indra was sent to bribe the king with offer of a crystal car capable of carrying him through the sky only for him to use not any other mortals. 

-It was quiet disturbing and just kind of weird to read that Uparichara was flying across the sky when his semen fell into the river and impregnating a female fish. 

-This made me realize I must be more extreme with creativity of the details of the stories I will be telling. 

-Anyways. the two children of the king and the fish, a boy and a girl, were caught by a fisherman.

-The king accepted the boy and left the girl to be with the fisherman's wife. 

-The girl grew up and while she was ferrying across the rishi Parashara river, the rishi persuaded the girl to yield to his embraces and stay a virgin and lose her fishy smell.

-She agreed and a child was born on the island and was named Dwaipayana for being born on an island, and called Vyasa because he wrote the Vedas. 

(Image Information: Satyavatai on Wikipedia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyavati)

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