The art of Story telling - Part 6.007 : The deluge & beyond

# Ambiguity of One upmanship  

The nature outside was at its wildest, it was a tropical typhoon.

The monsoon rains were pouring, the skies were flooding, it was torrential downpour the clouds collided and thundered, unleashing murderous villainous flash lightening backed with big divine nuclear bomb like sounds that almost signaled apocalypse, the dystopic ambience was completed with strong circular winds bending down even huge banyan trees to their trunks (with many trees giving up and getting uprooted or loosing major branches to the natural fury) - despite the severity some village folks were still caught outside scurrying, scampering to reach their destination even as their umbrellas were getting virtually whipped out of their hands by the sheer vengeance of the collective force of nature.

While the village folk feared the worst, Mr. Twist & the other Mr. were totally composed, calm (as seasoned chess players), engrossed & coldly playing Russian chess - as they mulled how they could destroy the other. 

The first mover advantage was with Mr. Twist, without wasting a minute and with a condescending smirk Mr. Twist moved his White Pawn from C2 to C4, looking at his smirk I put on a bigger one and then moved my pawn to E6, Twist twisted his face almost stifling a big laugh and moved his pawn from D2 to D4, I was expecting that move I quickly moved my black pawn from E7 to E5, Mr. Twist continued to smirk and that was beginning to irritate me, I realized he was playing mind games with me and I was also intent to give it back so by the third move I changed my smirk to laughing and chatting loudly announcing that I was reading his mind and I knew exactly what he was trying, the game had moved into the middle game, it was getting intense, we had both sacrificed our Queens, the rooks too had disappeared now the game had become purely a game between the Bishop & the Knight for both players with the support of the pawns, some pawns from both sides were near achieving promotions so the fight had reached a do or die situation – that’s when they noticed their feet getting wet and the water below their feet raising and that’s when they heard the thunder and the torrent outside – Mr. Twist changed his expression and with one swift move tried to swat the Chess board with an intention to push the board and the pieces out of the table and make the board and the pieces float on water saying let’s play chess on water !  

That’s when I started to grudgingly admire Mr. Twist because I had never imagined playing chess on water and once started collecting the pawns became more important than protecting the King! Since the squares had become fluid the more pawns you had the more powerful you became, so for both Mr. Twist and me it soon became immaterial whether we were collecting White pawns or Black ! We just went about splashing on water trying to get back as many pawns as we could !

But the nature outside continued to challenge earthlings, it was later that many people realized that it was a precursor to an impending apocalypse.

Once Twist knew he might soon get inundated he picked his pawn pieces and in a flash disappeared into the Amazon forest, while I collected my pawns and with equal speed entered Phantom’s skull cave, before the waterfall turned impossible to enter.

But before we entered each other’s domain we made sure we swore that we would each destroy the other !!  

Destruction ! Somewhere we both could here some crazy pop musician repeating the word with frenzied fans repeating his words !

Destruction !

hahahaha !

To me it sounded like Frankie the Frankenstein had reached Hollywood …  hahaha… !

And I was the Joker in the pack !

But I couldn’t resist calling Twist from my Skull Cave !

Somehow, despite the deluge around, the mobile networks were working ! And as soon as I called Twist too picked up my call, saying he knew I would call !

Which irritated me ( am I so predictable ?) but then I was more excited and I had questions … We chose to talk using WhatsApp video

It was like a bullet point media interview – I was shooting questions and Twist had to answer pronto, no thinking time ! And of course I was the media man, asking questions ( I was glad on that front )     

Me : Remember James Hadley Chase ?

Twist : No

Me : You don’t ?

Me : Sorry then you have no clue, who I’m … hahaha…

Twist : I don’t need to know James Hadley Chase to know who you are , I know you are a fool , an imbecile… ( was rendered with a smirk, which I ignored )

Me : Ok at least do you remember Betsy ? by the great Harold Robins ?

Twist : No ( that’s when I noticed that he picked up his dark shades, he wanted avoid eye contact)   

Me : oh you don’t ?  then this story is not yours…hahaha…

Twist : Fuck off , I know stories about people better than you

I ignore the taunt

Me : At least have you ever watched Soldier Blue? have you ever known Charles Bronson ?

No ?

Of course then you may not either understand me and our readers will definitely not understand you Mr. Twist

Twist : Hahaha… you think I care ?

I did not fall for that bait either , bcoz I had more questions !

Me : Have you heard about Steve McQueen ?

No ????? you actually mean NO ???

Sorry then you are not my audience

Twist : Fuck off, whoever said I was your audience ?   

Me ( agitated & angry ) : Listen Mr. Twist !  You and me are a part of a great story and it is important for you understand this story, very important ! You need to know some old things because this story is about old things, really old things.    

Old things like

Leftism

Romantic leftism

With a huge dose of liberalism

I’m not

a

Leninist

Nor a Maoist

Neither a Stalinist   

Nor even a Naxalist

Or Che Guevarian

They were those

Then

Their time is past

Beyond past

And some of them

Frankly were

And 

are an embarrassment 
That includes my own 
Father 
Gandhi 

Sorry father 
you were so batty 

To the readers

Hahahaha… sorry ! I suddenly made things serious ! not my intention, really sorry !  

Listen, there’s no need to really worry ! The one clear vision we all share is that we will die, we have to die and we will ! All of us, the world, the cosmos, the animals, the birds, the children too … there’s no left or right on that front !

Whether you are a leftist or a rightist

You are bound to die !

DIE ! 

And if you left to die, with no attention, chances are rats, worms, crows and dogs will eat your dead flesh !  

And so, what the fuck ? There lies the answer … hahahaha … there lies the answer … you think I sound like the Sankara Charya ?

Please permit me to disagree ! And excuse me if my friend is batty !

I think we all are 

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Listen frankly, I really regret I started this

Bcoz, ever since I chanced upon on Oliver

I thought he kept creating chances for us to meet !

And he blamed me for creating those chances !

In short he thought,

I was creating our so called ‘chance’ meetings

And I thought it was he who was somehow creating situations

to force me into ‘chance’ meetings with him

This entire game of “chance”

Was getting onto my nerves !

But then

The audience ?

They were enjoying it

They were even applauding

Our ‘chance’ meetings and our chance debates

We were getting popular

It was like a Lucifer and God debate

The only problem was we both kept

Exchanging roles

If sometimes he was Lucifer and I was playing God

The situation soon changed

Where he was God and I was the condemned Lucifer

Believe me

it was crazy 

Because both of knew

It was but a zero sum game

We  both were mortal

We both had the death sentence written down 

Even before our death          

Why death ?

Even our chance encounters, we suspected were all planned

Was anyone else out there ? pushing us towards each other ? 

Oliver looked at me & I did likewise 

We both got back to our comic strips 

He was busy drawing comic strips for Lee Falk 

I was busy drawing comic strips for Edgar Rice Burroughs 

We could hear thunder 

a storm was brewing 

The Story Teller (s) - Part 6

The nature outside was at its wildest, it was a tropical typhoon. The monsoon rains were pouring, the skies were flooding, it was torrential downpour, the clouds collided and thundered, unleashing murderous, villainous flash lightening backed with big divine nuclear bomb like sounds that almost signalled apocalyse the dystopic ambience was completed with strong circular winds bending down even huge banyan trees to their trunks ( with many trees giving up and getting uprooted or loosing major branches to the natural fury) - despite the severity some village folks were still caught outside scurrying, scampering to reach their destination even as their umbrellas were getting virtually whipped out of their hands by the sheer vengeance of the collective force of nature.

 While the village folk feared the worst, Mr. Twist & the other Mr. were totally composed, calm ( as seasoned chess players ), engrossed & coldly playing russian chess - as they mulled how they could destroy the other . 

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The art of Story telling – A non essay

Part 1

For a person who writes stories, stories can come and go in a flash. Often the story writer runs after those one’s that come and go in a flash ignoring the one’s that he’s already writing or some new one’s that strike his ever so imaginative mind.

This story too is about one story writer, not anyone famous or talented but someone who thinks or imagines he’s one.

Well, he’s just another one of those story tellers whom you find across every nook and corner of our planet – they simply exist, and yes they also suffer from their own sense of being quirky, crazy and also being absolutely weird, so much so that many from the normal world – from that Myers Briggs TI world – one would easily declare them as you know ? weird & batty !

hahaha ... 

Talking about being batty, I must confess this story teller I’m referring to does have that side in him that would surely certify him on the extreme side of the Myers Briggs TI world’s description of being really, really neurotic – let me explain, for one this story teller calls himself ‘Oliver’ and when probed further he says his full name is Oliver Wild Twist and that he was born as a part of the team who were led by Tarzan of the Apes in the deep Jungles of Africa and later fought along with Phantom the ghost who walks and even had supporting roles helping out Mandrake & Tintin !!

Now Come on ! If That’s not batty , what’s ??

But, to be honest the guy had his alibis, as proof that he was indeed a part of the Tarzan team or that he had partnered with Phantom or Tintin ( all of which I found pretty genuine I must say).

Sorry, let me explain, for instance every time anyone used to ask Oliver Wild Twist to show them proof of his story, proof of his alliance ( but for a better word ) with Tarzan & Phantom and Tintin, he would quietly walk to a huge wooden wardrobe that occupied his entire drawing room ( he was very secretive about his living room, not many got access to that ), work his way around many journals that looked more like some very carefully preserved almanacs full with leather covers and gold embossed titles and then carefully picked one big leather bound book as if it were a piece of precious diamond, he would gingerly bring it down without missing the page he had selected and with a sense of élan show his proof, point his shaky fingers towards a series of pages from old comic books ( that was what the leather bound almanacs contained ) , his fingers would point to strips within the comic story where he was featured as a part of some very intensive scenes where he was either holding a Spear or a knife or a gun etc., along with the protagonist of the Comic be it Tarzan or Phantom or Mandrake or even Tintin , most of the children who were gathered would nod in agreement acknowledging the fact that the image they saw resembled the Oliver they knew but the problem was most of the time Oliver's image almost always showed him as a part of a crowd, way behind the scenes, way, way behind ! 

Nevertheless, almost anyone who saw the comic strip would immediately agree that the guy whose figure was seen way behind the comic strip ( almost lost in a crowd ) was indeed the guy they were talking to !!

And once Oliver convinced them, that he was indeed a man who was once featured as a part of the team that created characters like Tarzan, Phantom & Tintin, once he knew he had arrested the attention of his audience he would go onto tell a story, a story as batty as his biography. 

Oliver always started his stories by first invoking his relationship with God the creator, and that too was as batty as his other traits ( please excuse the frequent use of the word will try and control it henceforth, sorry ).  As mentioned above Oliver always started his story telling process by first establishing his idea of God and himslef , he used to always say that he never believed in God and then went on to say that "if" God existed,  then they existed only in the scheme of an idea called ‘Chance’ and to him Chance meant something new, something creative, something that surprises people and so to that existent Oliver used to explain that since he believed that ‘Chance’ existed then there was a chance that god ‘maybe’ existed ! ( weird right ?).

Story Teller – Part 2

But hang on, Oliver also had another theory – and that was about “Creative beings” , and every time he used the two words in tandem, Chance & God or vice versa , he suddenly turned even more mysterious and seemed to sort of getting lost into a state of trance ! With moon in his eyes and a tone resembling some kind of a prophet he would say “the creator is never emotional about creations, never, the creator keeps creating and creating and creating ( the tone keeps lowering as he repeats the words ) and once something is “created” then that “Creation takes a form or stays formless ” but for the Creator it doesn't really matter ! Whether a creation takes on a form or a shape or stays formless No Matter !

He would shout, as all the kids watched him amused, he would raise his voice to a near crescendo -  The “ Creation has to take care of “Itself” the Creator doesn't Care, the Creator just doesn't care !!

I’m THE CREATOR BUT I NEVER LOOK BACK !

IF I HAVE CREATED , I HAVE LEFT IT BEHIND ! LET IT BE ! Let it be! Let it be !

I DON’T KNOW WHAT I CREATED ! I DON’T CARE WHAT I CREATED !

IF IT LIVES , IT DOES !

IF IT DIES

IT WILL COME BACK TO ME !           

ONLY ME !!

The Story teller (s) – part 3

Once Oliver finished his chant, he would look around for effect, usually his audience would be neighborhood children and other good for nothings, jobless or people who were equally out of their “minds” – so invariably, he would be satisfied he had a very receptive, obedient and more or less awe struck audience, until one day when I accidentally walked into his sermon.

Listen, I was a rogue, a narcissist and an atheist romancing with Communism. Though born as elite, I became attracted to the scum and scruff and believed that I was born to emancipate the world, especially the one’s who were attracted to the likes of OLIVER WILD TWIST’s, I had this notion that I was born to emancipate the naive , the poor, the innocent and those good for nothings from being entranced by the likes of Oliver Wild Twists, I thought I was born to help these hapless from becoming equally batty !

That was my singular mission ! So don't be surprised as to how I ended up entering Oliver's story land - I got drawn like a bat to bat land. 

But then, the biggest problem was , the other society around me including my family, my friends, my mates or even my teachers and gurus thought I was a bit weird too ! That was a crazy situation ! I knew I was not like Oliver Wild Twist but I also knew I had some strange traits, like for instance I always enjoyed the company of people who were weird and batty, I was always late to sleep and very late to rise, was never interested in school or education, very poor at math, poor , poor, poor in almost everything I did, so it was natural that I was hounded, scolded, cursed and condemned for not being bright as was expected – but, hello ? I was not like the Wild Oliver Twist either !

So it just happened one day I walked into Oliver's story land and he immediately seemed to sense that I was a misfit in his world, despite all my efforts to sincerely win his confidence, somehow Oliver was convinced I had subversive intentions ! That’s when our enmity started !   

Oliver Wild Twist knew my social problem ! Because he was from my village, from my ilk !

I had to prove to the world, I was not Oliver Wild Twist !

And Wild Oliver knew that if he could ridicule me, his kind of craziness would find legitimacy !

So that started off a kind of rivalry between the two of us and eventually pulled in even the people who flocked around him, since he became fond of making fun to entertain his audience with several jokes on me, while I would walk in and blow hot and cold on him for his debauchery right in the middle of his sermons - Oliver would simply continue, undeterred.  

Over a period of time we soon found that we could feed on each others quirkiness and that we were after all ‘Brothers in arms ‘ !! And so one day we met again by chance at a bar ! 

The earth changed direction after that.

The Story Teller (s) – part 4      

We were in a bar

Getting drunk

So who do you think you are ?

The bar was noisy

And somebody by chance laughed out loud

Oliver said

Who’s laughing ?

I said

I’m

Hahaha    

                          

   

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Ideals vs Politics – a non essay

At ground zero – We humans can accept that there are no ideals, no ethics, no dharma, karma or fear of divine retribution and all of those corollaries, what exists today is “only politics, and supremacy of politics and political will power.

I’m not referring Nietzsche

While ideals deal with sublimating humans. Politics deals with subversion, servility and an absolute disregard for humanity.   

I’m not referring to Machiavelli

What that means is that except ‘politics’ rest all are inferior – be it God, religion, ethics, civility, virtue, goodness, kindness and all such traits that builds a good civilized society, what that also means is that we as humans, collectively have willingly given up on our ideals.

I’m not referring to Lucifer

But what’s an ideal ? And what’s politics ?

Who rules or controls what ? Who controls ideals ?

Who controls politics ? Who rules ideals ?

Who rules politics ?

I’m not referring to Caesar

There’s no denying the fact that politics has pushed us back, really, really back

Politics has made sure that we are always in debt , always

What they give is what we get

What they take is what we have to give

We have to

What if I say , I don’t want to give ?

Bcoz , I do not understand your politics ? Your laws ? Your ideals ?

What if there are conflict of ideals ? does it matter ?

WHAT iF THE Nationalism you are propagating isn’t what I think is ideal ?

Listen, I’m no Plato or Socrates or Valmiki    

Nor am I

I

But I’m also political

   

         

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AAUW : The Grey Side of Retrospection : Chapter: CXXII : Speeding Faster Than Time

AAUW : The Grey Side of Retrospection : Chapter: CXXII : Speeding Faster Than Time


There was Nothing
To sense, to feel
could just barely see

Was speeding
faster
faster than light
faster than time

Had to

Had to beat them

But I had the steering
in Control
I was told
just singularly focus
on the dashboard

So that was my focus

That seconds needle
moving faster than light
thought I just saw

Sunlight

Very briefly

Was speeding faster
than light
faster than time

Had to

Had to beat them

But I had the steering
in Control
I was told
just singularly focus
on the dashboard

So that was my focus

Past, Present, Future
meant nothing

Was speeding faster
than light
faster than time

Had to

Had to beat them

Had to beat them
and see
far beyond
far beyond

There was nothing to see

Was speeding faster
than light
faster than time

Had to

Had to beat them

That's when the forces gathered
time and light
they started moving faster
and faster 

they wanted to beat me
my speed
my focus 

I shifted gears
and they shifted two

Seemed like an endless
competition

Was speeding faster
faster than light
faster than time

Had to
Had to beat them

That's when the forces gathered
time and light
they started moving faster
and faster  

 

I was told 

to keep going

and going

faster & faster 

If you to want win 

if you are seeking the beyond

Ahead of time 

beyond the speed of light  

 

beware of exhaustion 

beware, they had warned 

Never feel beaten 

Never get exhausted 

Was speeding faster
faster than light
faster than time
Had to
Had to beat them

I kept speeding 

But There was Nothing

To sense, to feel

Could just barely see

Was speeding faster
faster than light
faster than time
Had to
Had to beat them

   

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Listen, I know you are freaking busy and yes you have no interest to read anymore - do you really read anymore ? -  you have your Wha'saPP ( my spelling) and your other social media stuff etc., do you really read ? do your Children read ?

Thankfully, the answer is

Your Children are reading and reading and reading

Just like the way we used to to

You are so blind in your own stress

You think, they are missing Asterix or Tintin or Batman etc.,

Duh !

They already have their own new Super Human's of their own !

You guy's are so archaic ! So ancient !

I swear !

Dead Wood ! Like Liz the Queen !

     

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Listen, I agree this story seems to be meandering and going nowhere and I also agree maybe it doesnt really make any sense, but at one level it can be argued that Hey ! this is a story that's meant to meander , that's meant to float across certain expected contours and mathamatical progressions.

If only life were as linear. And yes, I'm also trying to make some sense of all the shit being thrown around because at the end of the day, do you really ever know what all shit are being thrown at you ? and in how many different forms or shapes or whatever ? 

Unless of course one's born as Queen Elizabeth.

But of course !

But then even Queen Liz and fly., know that they are themselves like living wax museum statues, a product of an unsaistanble systemic aberration, whose relavance has already become irrelevant !

Takes me back to the comment Col. Mc Arthur gave to then emperor of Japan after America nuke bombed Japan - instead of apologising to Japan, Col. Arthur directed the emperor of Japan to inform his people that he's also an ordinary citizen and not God incarnation.

While the helpless and demoralised Japanese emperor caved in immediately, many others in similar positions belonging to the european monarchies saw the writing on the wall and made sure the new age political marauders who were shaping the world in the name of change towards DEMOCRACY had room to connive and give european royalty sufficient protection from any form of potential extinction, the reason why Queen Liz remains more imp. to the world even today.

The european allies managed this absolutely incorrigible coup of sustaining their royalty, but yet pushing forward their intensive surge towards democracy while also at the same time carrying forward a highly planned, systematic butchering and dismantling kingdoms across the planet whose startegic base and purpose was propagated by the very same royalty based in europe who were commanding the destruction and dismantling of other competitive royalties across the planet.

It's an indipsutable fact that the european royalties continued to think they would retain most of the Colonies they had built across the planet once the war ended and I think they were justified in such a belief and I also think they continue have a vicarious role in controlling some of the most important and vital Socio-Civilisational aspects of this planet.

Like Meghan Markel ( not sure if that's spelt right , sorry ) driving in a new multi coloured respect for the English royalty ( that had single handedly snuffed out all available wealth & sunshine across the African continent and enriched themselves so immensely that till date an entire continent which was once one of the world's most admirable economies were rendered penniless and continues to live in relative penury till date )

Ok, I will not talk about Catherine the Dutchess of Cambridge.   

So, while the American's can take a lot of credit for having resurrected and reined in a mad bull Japan, the manner in which it was subdued remains one of the earth's shocking stories, a story of total lack of human to human empathy, near total  and severely impaired lack of comprehension of causal factors of sceintific perversion.

Col. Mc. Arthur and team ruthlessly nuke bombed Japan wherein in one single day within one single moment more life's, more damage, more destruction, more devastation was delivered on innocent life's - massacred en masse, innocents including pregnant mother's, young nubile, happily playing children, human's most innocent were bombed in a manner that the savagery& butchery of the otherwise globally condemned inhuman Nazi fascists almost paled into insignificance - in just one day.       

Coming back to royalty, of course they know that they are just the mere blood relations of their forefather's wax statues and portraits hanging from oil & canvass walls layered by centuries of butchery, slavery, colonisation for profit built out of bull dozing and destroying cultural opposites across planet earth - I somehow, still do not believe how the world continues to tolerate and respect them, forgetting the horrors and civilisational destruction carried out by these so called royalties ( can they be tried for human abuses carried out by their forefatther's & mother's ? by the ICJ ? with retrospective punishement ? ) .

Maybe that's an argument that's best lest to be handled Annie, not our forte I guess ! 

Of course, there are always stories behind stories !

And I'm trying to comprehend why the hell did Annie kill Daniel ?



      

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Annie was on a wild trip with her doctor, her Schezophrenic element had overpowered almost everyone at the clinical dorm room where she was being kept under control.

In her rage she almost would have killed , brutally murdered at at least a few dozen human's within a fraction of minutes, if not seconds, even fifteen to twenty people at the SCARF - Schezophrenic Research Foundation of India, HQ'd @ Madras ( Chennai ).

SCARF  incidentally is founded by Dr. Sarada Menon, a stalwart and pioneer of India's progress at treating mental illness with dignity, finesse and global class attention, SCARF is one of India's foremost Institute's established to treat extreme abnormanilities related to human rationality, it is recognised & reckoned as being amongst the best of the best in its field by the WHO and such other global instituitions.       

Annie was admitted after her parents who had come to visit her at her Chennai residence, were suddenly attacked physically by her, they had come visiting to spend time with her but as soon as they had rung the bell at her plush Poes Garden residence and an usher opened the door they could hear Annie hurling abuses at a very high pitch and soon She they had baseball bats, chairs and all sorts of stuff being thrown at them.

Poes Garden, Chennai, incidentally is currently known to be the residence of one of the most despotic, mentally and politically retarded suburb of Chennai, unfortunately presided by some of the most powerful people who rule the state of Tamilnadu - equivalent of Washington DC controlled and driven by the corrupt and the most corrupt.

You just need to step in and you know it is made corrupt wealth.

But, now we are not here to make any motherhood statements, we need to get our focus back, How did Annie end at SCARF ? 

Toleration was given up when Annie started beating up her just arrived parents and everyone around with rage and abuse with six inch size bamboo canes 

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thesocratespot: AAUW : The Grey Side of Retrospection : Chapter: C...: AAUW : The Grey Side of Retrospection : Chapter: CXXI : Evolution of Angst : It was a grey rainy day, Annie's father was sick but was at his home work desk doing his usual routine of scanning through every single page of a dozen odd newspapers of all hues and languages - included the very bigotic, rightist, to Capitalist or Marxian Economics, partisan, political, non political and such including some Global news editions of NYT & The Telegraph ( London edition ) or the Le Monde etc., Annie often used to wonder how  in the hell did the man manage to read so many news dailies in such detail and yet find time to prepare for his lectures and seminars as well as read or write on many other subjects and it is that image of a patriarch perched on a pedestal - far beyond her reach - that kind of revolted her, She wanted to be better than him, bigger than him.

Annie was giving a lecture on Nationalism, extracting excerpts from various thinkers each contradicting the other on the idea - from Diogenes to Taoists to Godwin and Rabindranath Tagore - the energy and passion with which She expounded on the subject seemed to transport her and the audience onto a zone all her own almost as if she lived the idea of anarchy and she beleived that everyone listening to her lecture shared her passion on the subject.

Annie pretty much had the audience entranced, even the most convinced Nationalist in the audience would have found a resonance in her argument on Anarchy being a better state of social existence than Nationalism.

Soon after her lecture a few eager students and media personnel chased her as she was rushing out and begged her to spare some time for their questions and Annie very reluctantly agreed - Annie was always apprehensive to talk to anonymous people, people whose views of society, religion, politics, authority or law were not clear - but somehow the people chasing her managed to corner her and she agreed to a Q & A

Journalist 1 : Hi Annie, thnaks for that wonderful talk on Anarchy, will you consider that just as a lecture or is that and idea you believe in ?
Student 1 : Ma'm that was a great lecture, but please tell me are you an Anarchist ?
Journalsit 2 : What do you think will be the fall out of a soceity devoid of a Nation ? Of an identity ? How can alien humans belonging to different geographic, social, racial, religious thinking accept and agree to welcome another human of contrasting ideas into his / her home ? If you have a home will you allow me who does not agree with your thought to live in your house ?

The questions were rapid, Annie was hearing them out with calm & patience - She was a rebel and an intellectual / social vagabond ( with four broken marriages across four continents ) and so for her it was not a problem handling chaos.

She first allowed all the Media people and the Students to throw all that they wanted to ask her and then decided that it was best that She addressed all the questions thrown at her through one common answer and so she replied -

So what according to you is a Nation ? And what do you think is the purpose it serves ? according to me a Nation is a cannibal and it can devour it's own patriots creating a frenzy around its own importance, the idea of a Nation can be usurped, hijacked and or condemned depending on its state of being, so according to me true Nationalism is a myth, most of what we believe as Nationalism are ideas that we are made to believe, none of it is really our own idea.

So saying she left .                                       

AAUW : The Grey Side of Retrospection : Chapter: CXXI : Evolution of Angst

AAUW : The Grey Side of Retrospection : Chapter: CXXI : Evolution of Angst

It was a grey rainy day, Annie's father was sick but was dozing on his old easy chair, to his left side one could see his tobacco pipe carefully placed to simmer on its own,  the pipe continued to blow slow, crystal white rolls of smoke and the smell of fresh tobacco spread a subtle falvour in the living room. It was a bright room, shaded with thick pale white Curtains - Jesudasan loved Pale White - with under curtains of very light chocolate brown, the room looked a musuem than a living space, filled with art, show pieces but very subtly placed , Jesudasan hated cluttered space, even his book shelf was carefully hidden behind wooden walls, that could be rotated, such that they were never super imposing their presence in the room - Jesudasan was a man of subtle emotions, never really interested towards anything that needed glamour and show off, even if he had all the credentials to live lavish and loud - as one of the most reverrred Professors of Sotuh Asian & Australasian Literature, he was often paid ransoms just to be present in some literary festivals, all the same at home he preferred space and space and space - so his living room was so large it could easily have been a house in itself.

But despite his high level of commitment to maintain peace, Jesudasan today was not as calm as the scene in his living room portrayed. It was a Sunday, he had just returned from Church, the Pastor had taken extra efforts to meet him and brief him about a new development concerning Annie, his daughter.

Annie was a casual member of the Church Choir, often receded to the back - to the last of the chorus row - purely because she was vivacious, naughty and energetic and was capable of getting easily distracted and since the Church preferred more sober singers to lead the group, Annie was carefully hidden from being in the lead group. But, one day it just happened that there was this singer from France who had come visting the church, he was a physically challenged, wheel chair bound musician, a victim of Cerebral Palcy but a man who had enough talent to charm the world with his voice, musical sense and humour, he was good looking too - waist up - his name was Harry Benedine.

Harry Benedine was born healthy but was declared a Cerebral Palcy Child at the age of two - when he started missing his milestones of walking , talking or moving his arms, fingers, legs etc - in fact even his neck wouldn't settle in one place, it always hung on one side with his tongue hanging out.

But Thanks to the determination of his Parents - who were poor hawkers selling Groceries in a middle class suburb in Paris - and with the help of some very dedicated Medical Scholars, Harry Benedine started gaining normalcy , he started moving with support, his neck settled, his tongue stopped hanging out and he started singing songs of Jesus with so much passion, he soon became a sought after child to lead Church Choirs initially within Paris, later around Africa and Asia.

 Harry soon became a Church musician with a charm and charisma of his own - he was bound to his wheel chair , was still having trouble to walk, talk ( without a slur ) or dance - but when he took to the choir he was a changed man.

Young Annie, had a legion of youths and teens chasing her for her attention, She could easily point a finger at a boy and he would hardly have words to say no to her , such was her energy and charm.

Annie, fell in love with Harry on the day they sang together.

Mr & Mrs Jesudasan were delighted. 

          

 

     

AAUW : The Grey Side of Retrospection : Chapter: CXX : Evolution of Angst

AAUW : The Grey Side of Retrospection : Chapter: CXX : Evolution of Angst 

Daniel was crouched on the back seat of a sedan, the cab was rolling good, but the silence around - except for the whirring tyres zipping through the asphalt - was distracting. The driver seemed pretty intent and focussed, so much that Daniel enquired if he was sleeping while driving. The driver obviously retorted in a not too friendly tone that he was doing fine and allowed the silence to engulf the drive again. 

Daniel , was sleepy, it was around 3AM and he was headed to the airport - he hardly remembered the City he was running away from nor the City he was headed to, all he knew was that his boarding pass had all the info required and that was it - as the car went about burning the rubber, Daniel's half open eyes observed the scarred, ragged rocks on both sides of the highway , they looked like mounds of burnt volcanic ashes whose ghostly looks were enhanced to resemble Dante's graphical visualisation of the walls of hell , swamped by fine Steel blue Street Lights lit by big, powerful LED bulbs on both sides of what was obviously a part of a jurassic rock plateau - red clay, short hardened shrubs, sparsely populated trees managed to further heighten the sense of environmental starvation.

But the highway looked nice and straight and beautiful - the bright white painted lane markers being the glamour quotient.

Daniel's mind drifted back to the day when Annie fell on his shoulders while still in her teens saying she was pregnant and she did not want an abortion but her Parents were upset and were counselling her to get rid of the womb.

Daniel was hardly interested in who or how or when Annie got into the trench all he wanted was to make sure Annie could get the space to do what she felt like doing. It was a sunny day that day, but Thankfully they were seated under a shade of a large coalition of tropical Tamarind trees in close proximity to Mango Trees and short but healthy Coconut palms - the scene around was very idyllic but for Annie and Danny the situation was far from Idyllic.               

Daniel looked into Annie's eyes and asked, So ? What do you want do ?

Annie replied

Please marry me. 

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