Anecdotal Evidence

Searching for information on Blanche Gardin returned little. Finally found this nugget from an 2015 interview: Gardin : In a few years we will all be living alone, because it will be unbearable living with "the other", as "otherness" will become unbearable. That is why couples break-up after three months, because we can longer deal with otherness.  We are convinced we are the centre of the universe, that we are the best possible version of the human being. So living with someone becomes impossible, obviously.  Even self-help books will say, " You need to love yourself before you can love others ". That's bullshit. Life is the opposite of that! You first have to open to others. It's your relationship to others that define you. And then maybe you may be able to love yourself. We really have it backwards.  And if we keep heading in that direction, in a few years or in a few generations, we'll all be living alone in our apartments, with mi...

Our Sumo stops at petrol bunk on the Tirunelvely-Papanasam road. The local driver mentions it as the location of the cellphone-comedy scene starring Vadivelu, from the movie Vel. I recall it : a pretty bland scene - to be polite- from an ordinary movie - to be politer. I was the youngest is the chock-full Sumo which contained, besides others, an octagenarian former civil servant, a retired professor of English literature and a literary critic. Every single one of them was able to recall the quoted scene without trouble ------------------- From the opening scene of Manhattan: Isaac Davis (voice-over): To him, it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture

One Deepika Padukone please Smoking or non-smoking sir ? Non smoking....but can I have it in wheatish ? History has shown that a face can launch a thousand ships - Murugavel Janakiraman