The process of revision should be constant and endless
The process of revision should be constant and endless
There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives...
What can't be cured must be endured.
After a winter's gestation in its eggshell of ice, the valley had beaked its way out into the open, moist and yellow.
What you were is forever who you are.
And my grandfather... was forever knocked into that middle place, unable to worship a God in whose existence he could not wholly disbelieve. Permanent alteration: a hole.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.
Why, alone of all the more-than-five-hundred-million, should I have to bear the burden of history?
Family history, of course, has its proper dietary laws. One is supposed to swallow and digest only the permitted parts of it, the halal portions of the past, drained of their redness, their blood. Unfortunately, this makes the stories less juicy...
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.
I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.
I have been a swallower of lives; and to know me, just the one of me, you'll have to swallow the lot as well.
I have been so-many too-many persons; life, unlike syntax, allows one more than three.
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
Religion was the glue of Pakistan, holding the halves together; just as consciousness, the awareness of oneself as a homogenous entity in time, a blend of past and present, is the glue of personality, holding together our then and our now.
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