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Love Is A Dog From Hell

Ah Bukowski, ze purrfek antydoat for ze kuhrent mad zetuayshen… “The people walk with such an indifference I begin to hate them, but then again I’ve never really been fond of anything.” – Notes From A Dirty Old Man

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Dig Adiga

Turbulent, insightful and a fucking kill of a read. Profound pre-holiday education. Incredible !ndia indeed!

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Audacity of Hollowness

Remarkable rendition. Dare you watch?

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Remembering Walt

I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken. – Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March … Continue reading

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Guitar Hero

Sometime in the early part of the year, with a stiff resolution to do my bit for the National Reading Campaign, I purchased the much-awaited-most-talked-about autobiography of the century. Wait. Ok, I’m exaggerating. Well maybe not that much-talked about, and … Continue reading

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Steal This Review

I detest full and concrete reviews, of books of course, for their exhaustive quality and wise-ass rhetoric that comes after The End; that closes in after the sweet and oftentimes dangerous comfort of accomplishment and completion. The ephinany at the … Continue reading

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Cu Huy Can

Been mucking and digging about to find some translations of the works by the great Vietnamese poet Cu Huy Can, and I fortunately managed to stumble upon one. Entitled “Sorrowful”, the poem languishes in its own brilliance, and is undeniably a southeast asian answer to Yeats and … Continue reading

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Music & Lyrics

Been racing through the master’s new book hoping to unravel some clandestine element in each of the songs. Remarkably, he discloses quite a bit on the history and background of his collected works, commenting as well on the mood of … Continue reading

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