Friday, January 15, 2010

Love is a little microcosm

As an experiment I loved a man who had nothing in common with me. We attempted to live and let live. His ideas were to be his ideas and my ideas were to be my ideas. However, I soon discovered that we could not exist simultaneously. His ideas were antagonist to mine. He was an adversary.In the interest of debate he sparred with me and told me I was totalitarian if I could not recognize his right to have his views. I tried to explain to him that his views were only sustainable if I annihilated myself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJPhA9TGRls

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Heavy-ness

The Hindi dramatist is weighed down by ideology-I am told. English is the language of a new lightness. "The unlive-able weight of conviction", I thought. These are indeed tough times for the fate of that word.

Nomenclature

A nomeclature is an important thing. So why deferral? A friend tells me to always live in the moment but like Vladimir and Estragon, I seem to be forever waiting for something. Most often it is a conversation... I rehearse in my head. Deferral is the continuous putting off ... till later