Quid Pro Quo With The Gods

Wodehouse Weights

I walk past George RR Martin's books in the store wondering who would buy these bantam weights. Wodehouse is the only author who would merit his omnibus with secondary help:

When I read that preface in the omnibus collection The World of Jeeves, instantly knew that our author isn't a conscientious writer promising eternal joy reading his works but deflecting some of his imponderable writing (esp..the musings of Jeeves on Spinoza and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky) to household recycle. If you had enjoyed the writing itself, good for you, else, ways to reinvent his inaccessible (some readers are born lacking sense of humor) handiwork as waistline weights. How many authors introduce their writing in such considerate tips for disinclined readers?

 

I am often inquired: you are such an oddity, how do you find kinship like you?

Easier to find scrambled minds like mine because the criteria is keenly defining, someone with a cascading interest in trivial musings. No gravitas and profundity! There are too many solemn thinkers jostling to be in the center of the world that marginal and odd voices are found readily in the modest corners. When you look away from the centrestage, you always find castaways gadding about in these quiet corners.

I am happy to have found a rambler with unsatiated appetite for colloquy in you covering all these random topics.

 

Corrected: Mahisha would have been ..

To boot: I was impressed by RK Narayan’s storytelling girth not pruning out any trifling or derivative plots from the mainline. Every subplot was as interesting as the main plot. I enjoyed reading the book. Characters like Lavana, Yayati, Trishanku were unknown to me in Indian mythology.

 

Doris Day has passed away. We discussed her previously.

Doris Day is the epitome of that saying 'when one door closes, the other opens'. Injured in a car accident, Doris abandoned dance and fancied singing to eventually become the highest-paid hollywood singer of her times. Isn't it delightful that our hidden talent blooms in unfortunate circumstances. She would not have pursued music if not for that accident. Such anecdotes of improvisation in adversities endear me.

Pillow Talk is one of my favourite films. The characters played by Rock Hudson and Doris Day charmed their way into each other's wits in that film. I insist with my friends that if a man does not indulge the woman in pillow talk, he ain't worth the afterwards snore. The movie elevated the act of noncommittal pillow talk between a couple to emphatic affirmation in love.