Death
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Reality is a fantasy.
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Alice is advised to begin at the beginning, go on till you come to the end; then stop. The last part , “then stop” is pretty tough. Most of the time a story is unlike a theorem in maths. The conclusion is not thought of at the beginning. Even wonderful authors have trouble ending the…
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Better late than never does not work for blogs. You have to write. Regularly. I do not. Indeed I hardy ever do anything regularly. Except maybe my original profession. I find myself in the midst of a situation of almost apocalyptic proportions. The fury of Covid is still blazing. Spending over a year and half…
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I know that words will not throw COVID out of our world. I say our world advisedly. With a virulent pandemic spreading at amazing speed in all its five or six variants, the risk is not confined to a geographic zone. It can never be so confined because SARS Cov 2 is not good with…
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I keep getting my timing wrong. With COVID. Like most people I also knew there was a second wave coming. But never guessed it would be so brutal. That is for forgetting old Malthus as I said elsewhere. There are just too many of us on the fragile blue planet. It is not fair to…
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“I sat down near her, inhaling the aroma of the tea and the more subtle aroma of my friend. Yes, she did have some features more appropriate to angels than corpses.” This is how the protagonist describes his old girl friend in my novel With Darkness came Death . He is devoid of emotions, the normal…