Saturday, August 28, 2010

a rolling stone feels no mass

I forgot to post my cursory post here that I am going home to Hyderabad. Okay okay, I know I keep doing too often to even mention it in the blog anymore. Still, here it is: I am at home now and will be in this 'state' for the next 3 weeks! Today also marks the day I first went to UK .. so completed 4 years now! A bit of an irony that I am in India while announcing this :P.

Oh and by the way, don't appear friendly and knowledgeable on flights and airports .. otherwise, you will be besieged and not allowed to use the free wifi in peace! Now that this is done .. what else do I write about? How about that post I thought I could try?

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How long was I staring at it? And how did I manage to hold my gaze and that posture, without any support, for so long? Or was it long? After all, normally it doesn't take more than a minute to figure out a bus route from a clearly delineated map even in a strange city. Perhaps the person sitting nearby and giving us that look of disdain would know how long it's been. Obviously, I can't ask. So I try to sit down without making my state too apparent. But how will I know?
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Wait, wasn't I just involved in an lucid discourse about what's wrong with .... uh oh .. what was the topic of the discussion? And what was my take on it? He doesn't seem to have been talking at all. So who was I discussing with? The only thing I can think of now is to conduct the 'time-test' again. I ask him what he thinks the time now might be. The last time we checked it was 1am. "2am? 2:30 perhaps?" he guesses. I check and it is 1:05am. He is as nonplussed as I am. I should conduct this test again after say, 10 mins or maybe an hour. If I can tell which is which.
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I can see them. I can feel them. They can feel them too. But they can't feel them and hence, so can't I. Too many pronouns in there? The hands, they are clearly holding onto the legs. I can see that. And the hands, they can feel the legs. So that's what they are doing- holding onto my legs. And my legs, they are nicely bent at the knees, around the bench. The feet are pleasantly planted on the ground and I can feel that. But the legs, they are oblivious to the hands that are visibly and tangibly on them. So where is the disconnect? Is this the 'out of body' experience people keep expounding about? If so, it's nothing fancy really, just kind of lame :P.
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9 comments:

SRILAXMI said...

Mythalez,

didnt understand anything... :-P i guess thats the motive behind writing abstract posts...? means u r successful! tee hee...

SRI

YF said...

rolling stone gathers no 'moss'

hellboy said...

whts got into u.. is it the "desi weather" effect?? :P ..

mythalez said...

@srilaxmi, hehe .. you should check out the older 'abstract' posts too then .. maybe some will make sense ;)

@YF, "feels" no "mass" :P

@hellboy, hehe ... currently the desi weather is no different from the 'videshi' weather :P

How do we know said...

u in hyderabad? wow.... my hometown too and i long to be here..

Aravind Krishna K said...

ahaa.. back to form finally.... see wat some homefood and hyderabadiness can do to Rama....

continue.. continuee..

thread said...

Everytime you post, god kills a kitten.

mythalez said...

@how.... this is one of the best times to visit .. if you like haleem that is :P

@aravind, hehe

@paccha, isn't that a good thing? the less lolcats there are, the better :P

Anonymous said...

I guess only few people can understand that it isn't that abstract ;) - The other person