Monday, February 18, 2008

The things you do to counter this cosmic boredom...

What great burdens we humans carry, caught in this trinity of unknown, unknowable and the ignorant!

Now did I read that somewhere, or did I make that up myself?! I honestly dont know.It has been like that. I havent been living up there in my head recently. But as and when such things (for lack of a better way to put it), occur to me, I have been

  • Writing them down on paper, making paper boats, and subversively floating them in the office fountain pool.
  • Saying it very slowly to random strangers at traffic lights, just before it turns green, and riding away.
Quite a Calvinish prank...:P Now if I were smart, I would sell it as a performance art that is my interpretation, of Dostoevsky's Notes from the underground, of the subversive angst in the urban culture...but fuck being smart. Here are some more of these one liners...

Civilisation began when man began to live in cities, and will one day come to a stand still in one bloody HUGE traffic jam.

Koyaanisqatsi. Do you know what that means? Its a Hopi Indian word that means a way of life that is out of balance.

Row Row Row your boat... gently down the river... Merrily, merrily, merrily... till the end of world is here...

1 comment:

Rashmi Patel said...

And we are still waiting for updates...waats thi latesht?