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The Hairless In A Saloon

Discussion in 'Cheeniya's Senile Ramblings' started by Cheeniya, Mar 17, 2017.

  1. Cheeniya

    Cheeniya Super Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

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    @Iravati

    I read and enjoyed the poem. It is stated in the end that 'Pure/پاک.’ has been shortlisted for the 2016 Berfrois Poetry Prize' Need I say more? I enjoyed the simple and elegant poem. In the great family of Iravats, you and my college principal were the earth-bound ones. The white elephant never gets annoyed in whatever way his name is mentioned! I tried to google for the 'vigra vakya' of Iravati and it took me to posts on Viagra!
    I shall most certainly take his advice!
    Sri
     
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    What a marvelous piece Cheenia! Brevity is the soul of wit is the first thought that crossed my minde. I recalled with a sigh my own attempt to write about my hairless travails. I think you had read it. It was called Paradise Regained -- A Hairy Tale. I had put in stupendous effort to write the piece and collected 14 comments, of which 7 were my responses. You produced with immaculate brevity, what my Ulysses style magnum opus failed to achieve. Sigh, sigh, sigh. Of course, I am not running a race with you. But I do feel pretty worthless!!

    Keep the change. Ha! A magnificent denouement! He knew that your wife had you on leash. She is a perfect wife and I wonder where Cheeniya's Ramblings Cart might land if it weren't being pushed from behind by this darling of a woman. I doubt that you would be able to attract even 14/7 comments. :)

    Carrying Wodehous and Aldous Huxley in the same basket. Needs courage doubtlessly. I wonder where you found the courage. From the same lady who keeps you going? I admit I haven't read too much of Huxley. But the ones I read, were not hard to follow. One of them being Point Counterpoint. There were others too. But the one I liked best was The Gioconda Smile. It's short, morbid and romantic. Almost paradoxically so. I am assuming that you have read it. If not, it is now freely available on the net. It's a short story, but too long for your eyes at the moments.

    Sorry about this long fb itself good friend.

    oj
     
  3. Cheeniya

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    @ojaantrik

    My dear man
    Merely because I have a larger readership, it doesn't mean that I write better! People generally find it easier to go through shorter pieces and it doesn't mean people who use their words sparingly are better writers. The Hairless in a Saloon is a one page story but A Hairy Tale is a magnum opus . Period. During my pre-stroke days, how much I looked forward to your long classics. If you remember I used to respond with a long feedback. Those were the days!

    Aldous Huxley and Bertrand Russel were the two writers that fascinated me a lot. One was a great believer in God and the other one was a non-believer but both stuck to their guns and produced some masterpieces. I have read The Gioconda Smile but his style was never my cup of tea. Don't forget I am a hardcore Wodehouse fan!
    Sri
     
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    I am cross-posting because this line piqued me.

    I have a tinge of regret that I could not converse more intimately with you back then. Read you better, know you better, follow your feed steadily. I was derelict in my feedbacks. There were only two attractions for me in IL back then, goofy enterprises in E & G and your snippets. I weighed in more in E & G. In retrospection, making no bones of it, I took you for granted. Cheeniya is always around. I can catch up anytime. I am now mindful of not taking any of “those days” (cross-post) for granted. I wish I had been equally active with your ramblings since the beginning. Why wasn't I? I am just too spoiled and take a lot of things for granted in life. Notwithstanding, I've always enjoyed reading your Seinfeld-styled blogs on particularly nothing but broadly everything of life. I tease you with one-eye and one-finger but it tugs me at times that I wish I had connected with you during the perky pre-stroke days where more than one eye featured. I truly enjoy our conversations here. Just a tussle between time and space that cramped my presence here. Regret blurt!
     
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  5. Cheeniya

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    That was some feedback! Never knew that any one would follow my ramblings seriously and would enjoy them too. Honestly I write because I enjoy sharing my experience with others. After my stroke, I write a lot more regularly than I ever did before. My stroke probably drives me more to my childhood and youth and that was the period when there was a lot of action in my life which I share with you all. At my age, the recall of even my troubled days gives me a lot of joy. 'Oh, did I really cross all this?' kind of feeling if you know what I mean. That makes passage of time a lot easier to go through. It is hard to believe that the passage of Time is constant. At my youth, I needed 48 hours a day but now all that rush of youth seems pointless.
    Thank you for your visits to my ramblings. I enjoy them immensely.
    Sri
     
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    Why would you think so? You introduced me to Don Camillo. And last week ‘the holy fermentation in a car’ joke “oh! He did it again” has split my jaw in a happy grin.

    As we age, we are more reminiscent of our childhood. These days, when I talk to my siblings, mostly childhood capers and gossip are discussed. Did you remember that? Do you know this? Recollective banter! During childhood, the experiential knowledge is not only vivid but also firm. Things we learn as kids are embossed in our minds permanently. But now, I read today and forget tomorrow. Who are those characters in War and Peace again?

    That action you quoted also stems from novelty in experiencing life. A new adventure or delight everyday in learning and discovering life. In few years, the frequency of newness in life evaporates. You can predict and extrapolate how life will unfold with empirical knowledge. By thirties, you feel like you have seen it all and focus inward rather than outward.

    I know what you mean. I feel no different than you when I compare now with my times in my twenties. Did I really do that? I was hunting for a bakery in the mid night, in an auto, in a deserted street with no phone? Indeed, I know the tingle with such recounts.
    I am not gratifying you as a tactful yes-sayer. But I fathom your personalised time and space equations. I do know what it feels to turn around and reflect the surveyed course with a revisionist pair of lens. A lot of things seem very pointless today. The rush, the intensity, the madness to grab life while it has been speeding ahead. Today, when I stand still, life just bucks and adjusts to my pace, it no longer runs ahead of me. I had felt that I was meant to catch something, like hop onto the last bus, today I stroll and lark around because I have discovered that there’s (always) another bus behind the last bus. What's the big rush?!
     
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    You have realised it at less than half my age! That's what I admire in the younger generation. It has taken me this long to realise that childhood is the best phase of anyone's life. There is more to recall about our childhood with joy of course. There is a Temple of Lord Subramanya at Swamimalai in Tamilnadu where the legend says that Lord Siva received the meaning of Pranav Mantra from his son Lord Subramanya. Siva was the first one to show us that there is a lot we can learn from children!
    During my school days, my dad would to often say 'Don't chase your time. Let your time chase you'. I never understood the meaning of it then but now I understand its full significance. It is one way of saying that we must be master of our time and not vice versa.
    You are lucky to have realised it so early in life. I took a whole life time to learn it!
     
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    But then you have iterations of fine-tuning on how to tackle life.

    Life is no different from universal laws of physics. You observe, study, hypothesise, predict, verify and voila rule over it, and periodically readjust. There is constant refinement in terms of what to talk, when to shut up, when to exit, when to enter, when to risk, when to embrace, when to offload, when to reboot your existential crisis. You have to act accordingly. I wasn’t this self-assured in my early twenties. Remember, people used to scare me , aisa waisa... then … upon then. I think the turning point in my life was when I started to enjoy the wagaries of life — getting into trouble, getting out of trouble — once you get the hang of engaging with the challenges of life, it is lot fun.

    But then even pathologically I think I have a disorder of excess secretion of neurotransmittors where I am hyper-excited with sensory stimulus. I read a nice article, I have good food, I have a fun conversation, I explode in happiness. Even nothingness and vacuum send me jolts of ‘appiness. Leading life is always a work in progress. On the whole, with several iterations and Monte Carlo simulations, life and I are at 1-1 today.

    I prod her ... you next move … I am ready.
     
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    An example, I am listening to this

    I am super-duper-excited, how can someone beautifully capture the spirit of living in such innocent lyrics.

    Assi aithe khade
    Hai jaana pare
    Na kam humko tol

    Assi zidd te ade
    Junooni bade
    Eh dil ke ne bol


    Ek jindri meri
    Sau khwahishaa
    Ek ek main poori karaan

    Ek jindari meri
    Sau khwahishan
    Mushkil humein rokna
     
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    Yes, I have a lot more to say but first enjoy your holiday. More on your return!
     

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