Anecdotal Evidence

The man returned to the lower office and sat down again at his desk. He stared intently at the incomplete phrase: In no case shall the said Bernard Bodley be... and thought how strange it was that the last three words began with the same letter. The chief clerk began to hurry Miss Parker, saying she would never have the letters typed in time for post. The man listened to the clicking of the machine for a few minutes and then set to work to finish his copy. But his head was not clear and his mind wandered away to the glare and rattle of the public-house. It was a night for hot punches. He struggled on with his copy, but when the clock struck five he had still fourteen pages to write. Blast it! He couldn't finish it in time. He longed to execrate aloud, to bring his fist down on something violently. He was so enraged that he wrote Bernard Bernard instead of Bernard Bodley and had to begin again on a clean sheet. - from Counterparts by James Joyce

Often I feel like the girl in "If Tomorrow Comes" who plays chess with the American and Russian. To the technical guys I am the business guy To the business guys I am the technical guy I speak of Tamil literature to 'English medium' friends Moffusil politics to Chennaites I'm the conservative's liberal and liberal's conservative All that, I assure you -not in a show-offy manner. But in a simple what-can-I-bring-to-this-table contributory way. I could be the only screenwriter who plays the oboe - Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation But what's impressive about the iceberg is that we assume there's more from where it came from. We know we only see a part of its monstrous size and rest is below the water. The difference is, the knowledgable man doesn't sync enough. To be judgemental on this is being unrealistic. Biting off more than you can chew is a virtue in Tamil culture. So it took me some alienation to appreciate the wisdom in.. I'm always amaze...