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The one that got away

26 Monday Nov 2012

Posted by daakusaxena in attempted muse, bark!

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charade, drama, dreams, love, relationships


People say that it will get better. People say that things will change. They promise a lot. They paint a rosy picture in your head.

They lie.

You can do it, you can have the empire, without realizing that it is of dirt. You can play with it for a while, make a palace out of sand. And when rain comes, watch it crumble, try to save it knowing that there is nothing you can do.

You can also remember all the moments you were a split second late, the decisions you took too long to take, the memories you couldn’t make. Nothing blows as a candle in the wind. Nothing stays like an amorphous anathema. When your victories are your own, why does it become so hard to accept defeat as your own wayward child- which you nurtured but somewhere, something went wrong?

What is it that makes you afraid? What is it that you’re haunted of? Are you so afraid of rejection that you have accepted it, getting along with your life like it matters not? For how long do you think that you can carry on this charade?

You cannot ever find the time to do all the nothing that you want. Go watch a movie, go listen to a song, sing a melody, try to be happy. Try to discover the heart that seems lost. Indulge it, again. Be prepared to get it broken. If it does, and in all probability, it will, start afresh.
Fall in love. Anything will do. As long as it serves an inspiration to the fear that it will go away, keeping you on your toes, alert, for the storms to come.

It will get better. Things, they will change. I promise you. Do cry, but when the tears dry, come to your senses, over the one that got away.

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04 Sunday Sep 2011

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drama, Foucault, Kellerman, Marquez, Omega Minor, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Pierre Riviere, Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses, serial killer, The Butcher's Theatre, The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula, Verhaeghen

Okay. Here are some of the books I’ve read recently. You can check out some of the titles.

1. Omega Minor by Paul Verhaeghen.

This is by far, the best book I’ve ever read. I liked it more than Schindler’s List or any other novel on the background of Holocaust. The literature is so strong, it takes you places. The words used in the book compel you to contemplate, give a serious thought to what violence actually is, and how can you find love and life in the simplest of things. On reading something, if something inside you changes, the book more of less serves its purpose. And here, this one did for me. A must read, if you ask me.

2. The Butcher’s Theatre by Jonathan Kellerman. Fiction.

If you like serial killer stories, this is the one for you. It tries to capture the mind of a psycho, a serial killer who rapes and kills to satisfy his sadistic carnal desires. This book is heavy, mind you, and Kellerman delivers his best in this novel. He allows you to have a look at things form the point of view of the killer, and then a family-loving cop. It’s a thriller, but thankfully, Kellerman is no Dan Brown to (only)focus on adding unnecessary twists.

3. One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Fiction.

This is the book to read if you like drama and literature and are confident enough of remembering all the million interlinked characters of a single family. This one is a little slow at start, but when you get adjusted to its pace and the things it wants to convey, you would hate to keep it down for a second. It is a classic, and is meant to be read like a classic. period.

4. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. Science-fiction.

This is rated as one of the best science fiction books of all times and though I am not that big a fan of the genre, I loved this book. When you start reading this book, you won’t stop, trust me. The literature, the choice of words, the basic theme of the book is plain brilliant. This book was suggested to me by Aditi Nath Sarkar Sir, and well, this is one must read for the science fiction lovers. (I read this last here, but had to include it in here!)

5. I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother by Michel Foucault. Non-fiction.

What Foucault has done here is he has written this book as a journal and left it at the reader to impart their own judgement to this man. He has the original notes of the murderer in the book as well as what the newspapers of the time reported, and the court sentences. You can read this if you want to look into the workings of a depraved misguided mind and try to have a glimpse on how it functions.

6. Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.

Well. This man here is one of my favorite authors. What he writes just appeals to the eye and the mind. Somehow he manages to capture all the intricacies of human behavior and play with his characters like no other. He has done the same in this book. And well, this book is banned in India. Get a copy if possible, reading this book is a pure delight. 🙂

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