Life, The Universe, And Everything In Between

Four [Three continued] Someone was watching something on someone else's computer when someone else stood behind the first someone and said, someone, don't turn around for a bit. I was none of them, but the story seems worth the telling. Maybe it's an example of the levels some people have already sunk to, and so nothing they do now seems offensive. Anyway, I digress.  College was fun. The notebooks of those days were written down, and back spacing wasn't an option. Striking out is harder than I thought. Puns remind me of my poetry (recent): Red Light Brake.  Stop.  Engage emergency brake.  Breathe. How long? 59? 42? 23? 7? Relax.  Repeat procedure for sleep.  Time not by a clock you must keep.  Down To The Bone Sun warming the clouds from above Driving the cold down Cold has none other way to go Down to the bone I want to be a solar cell Photosynthesising Rooted eternally Basking in ...

On 3rd November 2014, we attended a good old friend's wedding and celebrated the occassion with the pomp and splendour that has become the norm in New Delhi. Most people's progeny holds the so-called special place in their hearts. I don't have any, so that's something to be shelved with things-to-be-thought-about-when-they-happen shelf. Ate dragonfruit for the first time (so the 'been there, done that' adage is not applicable for some time to come - till the inevitable end) at the following day's reception do. A week earlier, a petty salary/retainership cheque had been signed, somewhere in some office, as compensation for my work. The panoramic night view afforded by the taller apartment buildings, encompassing the yellow dots of light along the expressway and the myriad concrete clusters still under construction, is one to behold - hence my effort to digitize all the sights worth sharing. If only I shared as much as I cared. I like still life phot...

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I'm glad I have the ability to appreciate solitude. Twitter is more instant. Still, this is HIWTBINW. #6hourism

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. W. Somerset Maugham Ralph Waldo Emerson - "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Re-reading from Chapter 18, Dante.  Dante's Inferno (the game gave me quite a bit of information) The Magic Mountain Schweik Kafka - done Joseph K Faulkner Ulysses- tried; Latin got in the way.  30 Rock - seen some; it's good.  Gustav Aschenbach - Death in Venice - Mann The ubiquitous Indian restaurant Saroyan Camus - lots to go.  Bible, Freud - usual suspects King Lear Chapter 19 Loads of f Chapter 20 The chaplain's plight, brilliantly described, and I opine that Mr Heller was a very verbose writer, with an almost stream-of-consciousness style, and had a very expansive vocabulary.