As if the moon could haul through you..

Had he kept just the last line and written not a word more- still this poem would have been whole for me.

4 quotes

So you want to live 'according to nature?' Oh, you noble Stoics, what a fraud is in this phrase! Imagine something like nature, profligate without measure, indifferent without measure, without purpose and regard, without mercy and justice, fertile and barren and uncertain at the same time, think of indifference itself as power — how could you live according to this indifference? Living — isn't that wanting specifically to be something other than this nature? Isn't living assessing, preferring, being unfair, being limited, wanting to be different? And assuming your imperative to 'live according to nature' basically amounts to 'living according to life' — well how could you not? Why make a principle out of what you yourselves are and must be?
-Friedrich Neitzsche

"Dancing is like making love... it doesn't matter how you look - just concentrate on how you feel."
-Erica Jong

"Hello Rabbit, is that you?"
"Let's pretend it isn't", said Rabbit, "and see what happens."
-Winnie the pooh


"Not all who wander are aimless. Especially not those who seek truth beyond tradition, beyond definition, beyond the image." -
Mona Lisa smile

So that's that. Good night.

Ok this one's for you Lisa Rani Ray.

I visited Lisa's blog after a long time today, and I was sort of missing her writing. Her one liners grow on you.. I hope she will resume this one.

Siachen & a balloon

It's where hell freezes over- the temperature marks a minus 50 during the winter here. Not that any other season is any more habitable. The winds reach a whooping 300 kmph up in the mountain top. If the treacherous avalanches don't kill you- chances are that frostbite will. This is Siachen- the highest battleground of the world.

From a batch of hundred jawans who undergo the rigorous training in mountain warfare, a significant number never get to finish their training- the mountains claim them before that.

For the rest, the battle has only begun.

We were all so freaking proud when our manager talked about Siachen, and our army. The Indian Army. This incredible team fighting it out as a unit, showing unbelievable grit and resilience at one of the most perilous ends of the world- a place so uninhabitable that it is often dubbed as the 'third pole' on the earth.

O boy- weren't we proud souls- feeling a sense of awe and compassion and all that jazz! Our proud country! Our jawans! Our indomitable spirit!! We were awe-struck at their teamwork and determination as they won battles for us, leaving us with the luxury to live a much simpler life, at much lower altitudes, and in more pleasant lattitudes!

This balloon of our five minute patriotism floated across the room- and we all got to have a little nudge at it and see it dance- till he popped it with his question- Well.. can anybody spot Siachen on the map for me ? Er.. Siachen?


psst -this is the siachen we talk about when we talk about what we talk about.

What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

-Vikram Seth, From Heaven Lake. (Penguin)

Aren't we the loneliness we try so hard to duck? I redeem myself of all this darkness- just to slip back into it.. every time.. this wretched hollow of a soul.

This is a bad thing indeed. Why must I always be in love to feel at my mighty best? &Why does anything remotely otherwise bother me so much!

Why must I be so loverly!!

Normal Rockwell- bravo google!

Ammu absolutely absolutely loved Google's tribute to Norman Rockwell today. What an artist! What an eye for detail !


here are some others- if i may..

girl at mirror

surprise





bedtime




triple self portrait (wasn't this my favourite or was it the perpetual motion ? .. at least till yours truly stumbles on another one of his pictures and get dazed..)