Drums Mani
This post is to bid to elucidate the roots of admiration that explain the etymological roots of this blog John Wayne said ' In all my films, I have played John Wayne. And I have done rather well, haven't I ?" On the other hand, Oscar Wilde most famously said " I put my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works ". Two contrasting schools. But what happens when the artist in question is genius personified ? If the previous paragraph sounded sophomoric, well you guessed right. It was the gist of the opening paragraph of a piece I tried writing when in college, titled : " Of Wayne, Goundamani and Wilde ". The intended recipient was "The Hindu" of indhula-sandhula fame. The paper had published an article the previous week hailing a then hot comedian which was a tad too effusive in praise for my taste. So I had set about trying to right wrongs.Of course, the article with the rejection slip came back home before I was even back from...
rendu varushathukku munnadiye governmentukku sonnen- ayya ivar vayasa koottunga via a GO. Now he has grown an order of magnitude and I'm shrinking like a cotton shirt caught in a cloudburst.
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ReplyDeleteKaradi, Koboyashi Issa is considered one of the three pithamah's of haiku (Matsuo Basho and Yosa Buson) being the other two. Strongly recommended.