"Superstar politicians and superstar quarterbacks have the same kind of delicate egos, and people who live on that level grow accustomed to very thin, rarefied air. They have trouble breathing in lower altitudes; and if they can't breathe right, they can't function."
Trying to blog from phone. Got Dorris Lessing's first novel by snail mail, this book is traveling for 29 years now :)
Smoking used to be sexy, it used to be a sign of that creative energy symbolized by Albert Camus and Hemingway and Picasso and Guru Dutt and MT Vasudevan Nair and a thousand other literary geniuses. Smoking isn't sexy anymore. Cigarette smokers are outcasts in almost all walks of life.
Another one :) Guess Prithvi speaks a little more than needed. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ5oQvR2_pA This is too funny not to post. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DspTjoGLUWg More Videos.
I guess the most awaited books of the year. Pre-ordered both on Amazon. Michael Crichton was my first favourite author. If Great Train Robbery and Eaters of the dead are [...]
Michael Crichton was my first favourite authour. Crichton showed us that science could be so much drama, beating Asimov in his own game. Crichton reintroduced dinosaurs, now we know that [...]
I kept looking looking for symbolism in Fiesta. Didn't really get what it was all about, like I told you. This Time magazine article from December 1954 explains Papa Hemingway a [...]
In his poem, "So That You Will Hear Me," Pablo Neruda evokes the frustration of using language that resists translation. His words, which have been tailored in relation to himself, [...]
"In India you get up in the morning and there are ten people there to greet you and to discuss how you slept. Or you can call up someone and [...]
Pakistan's self appointed Head of state and erstwhile coup leader Pervez Musharraf has released his autobiography 'In the Line of Fire'.Key excerpts from the book has been published by BBC, [...]