Clash of the Titans
July 16, 2007
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Clash of the Titans
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AK | July 16, 2007 at 12:26 pm
brilliant….i cant keep wonderinf how u could write such flawless stuff and that too put urself shoes into the shoes of a doc/lawyer with such ease….
keep them coming….
But does it really take away all its
marks? I donÌt think it does.
i think life goes on….
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Princess Banter | July 16, 2007 at 12:36 pm
How do you do it darling??? This is totally awesome…
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adithya | July 16, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Well first of all the title.. simply too good and really really apt.. happiness and sadness is one hell of a clash of titans. And hey u don’t bring nature in, in most of your blogs and the way you brought in the stars moon and the sky was simply marvelous. I was reminded of the book “Doctors” by erich segal where he mentions about such clashes and decisions which doctors have to make. Well I know you wanted to be a lawyer but was Doctor a backup
. It really felt like a doctor talking
And hey the beauty of terrace trust me .. I have felt the same but you have just explained it so beautifully… no one can beat that. Well some of the best lines which seemed to have fit in amazingly in a superfluous way was “Today was the mother of all I-need-to-think-it-through days” and as for “conflicting emotions… Call it a typical
guy thing” cant agree with you better . The sadness in a doctors life was so beautifully brought forth.. really that one line summed it all up “I would trade that moment for Chinese torture any day” . The master touch was when the doctor had both the emotions and the way you dealt with it simply too good.. really… this line in particular “Here I lie before the stars not understanding my emotions. There I was feeling
extremely happy for a life that had just entered this big bad world and at the
same moment worried sick that one of my patients had just bid his final adieu” really too good.. u just reached a different level buddy.
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adithya | July 16, 2007 at 1:24 pm
. I looked at the stars up above as though asking
them if what I thought was right. I am sure I caught one of them twinkling at me.
Well I took it as a YES.”
What a way to end the blog… what a way!!!
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Anu | July 16, 2007 at 3:30 pm
“I start thinking about the
universe and beyond and invariably end up realizing what a tiny piece of jigsaw i am in the universe.”
so profound yet so subtle….
the way u had described happiness and sorrow playing with our lives alternately made hell a lot of sense.
very deep yet so simple….simple truths of life put together in such an amazing flow…that it made me twinkle just as the star did and say YES.
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Harish | July 16, 2007 at 5:10 pm
I can put it simply…
There…Da Vinci paints another Sistine Chapel.
I am not sure if I should be bery very happy about this post….because my alter ego (i.e U) have written about something that I wanted to write for the past one week.
I saw a medical program and wondered if I could write something similar about the mental stress that Doctors go through. I guess now I will have to relinquish the idea as I find you having done an amazing job that I CANT surpass for sure.
A few quotes from ur post further demented my little hopes
“big black sky lying over me like a
blanket, covering me from looking beyond, as though protecting a secret from me”
“I looked at the stars up above as though asking them if what I thought was right. I am sure I caught one of them twinkling at me.
Well I took it as a YES.”
Dear Nivi….tell me how do U do it?
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Karthik Balasubramanian | July 16, 2007 at 8:03 pm
I see so many comments of appreciation that i dont wanna be another one here.. let me just share one of the most scintillating monologues i ve ever heard in all my years seeing movies.. here is how it goes..
You’re always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together.
And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it’s no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies’ digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don’t want to go sievin’ through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, “as greedy as a pig”.
Keep em coming nivi..
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navien | July 17, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Absolutely fantastic work yaar!!
I just loved it!! “Clash of the titans” too good a title niv..
As u said , sadness n happiness r fleetin in nature. they r appositely the clash of titans..
Wonder how wud b d life of doctors daily..How hard der hearts cud b to witness deaths n people slowy dyin away!! I am sure they should b rock solid to handle conflicting emotions everyday!!
I wonder how u cud write it so beautifully n unblemished..Felt like dis post has spawned off frm a doctor!!:-)Kudos!!
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prithz | July 18, 2007 at 12:15 am
Hey!!! That’s fantastic!!! Wonder how i missed your blog for so many days! Awesome material! I love the metaphorical connections!
//big black sky lying over me like a
blanket, covering me from looking beyond, as though protecting a secret from
me.// – Perfect!
//I
did not know if it was a sacrilege to feel happy and sad at the same time for
reasons as diverse as life and death.// – I loved this line!
//Constantly playing. Playing with our lives.// – Brilliant!
At the end of it all, you made me feel ashamed of my blog.
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Suchitra | July 18, 2007 at 12:54 pm
I beg to differ.
Light exists. Darkness does not. It is just the perceived absence of light, at a given point, at a given time.
Happiness is an all prevading blanket. Sadness is when you think you can’t see it.
The precious thing is not ‘life’ as such. No biologist has ever been able to come up with a definition for life so far, but here, I can guarantee that the word you look for is not ‘life’. I don’t think there is a word for this, though. What I am talking about is that within us that makes us think, feel, express…that which makes us, to use an arbitrary ter, ‘human’. It is that which we value more than anything else.
The story was well written, better than the others I have read on this page so far. Keep it coming.
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Nivi | July 18, 2007 at 1:14 pm
@suchitra
THere is almost no fun if there is no difference of opinion.
However why cant happiness and sadness be 2 different things. Because we perceive them to be opposites, it need not be one.When we are happy we are not absolutely happy and same goes for when we are sad.Its a perception
As for human, what abt life in beings that do not maybe have a six sense. THey have a life too just as we do. Its life i am talking abt and maybe the absence of it.
Thanks! Glad you liked it
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Nivi | July 18, 2007 at 1:40 pm
@prithz
Hey come on! I loved your post on the frist kiss.
And thanks a ton!!!
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sathish | July 20, 2007 at 4:29 am
What shall I say abt tis scintillating post ?? Do u know why your comment pages jus flow with appreciation …why s tat everyone are hailing u all d time….. well…Nivi,,, to love is to admire with d heart but to admire is to love with d mind…… ppl are admiring ur posts ……. they really are……Ur posts do play with our emotions
Clash of the Titans / EmOtiOnSssssssss …… made me wonder like…….well is it possible for a Doctor to come up with something like tis…… ? ? ? Cant stop mentioning abt the title,,BRILLIANT selection (though I don’t want to talk abt the title everytime,,,, u r MAKING me say something abt it,,,,,without commenting on it my commet wud be INCOMPLETE
……each n every fan over here wud have written atleast a line abt d title…….apart from Love n Hatred…..i don’t think we can get any other intense clash ,,,,,,, ..The writing s sooo goooooood,,,,,so real……jus like how water shapes itself to the vessel tat contains it……u jus drop into others shoes and jus script an absolute Masterpiece…….way to goooooooo
The terrace,, trees,,,flowers ..skyyyy … u started d post wit sorta picturesque writing…..;-) and slowly got into d groove and dilly-dallied with d thoughts….u really know how to play with d emotion….don’t u ?
Loved some of the lines…..I love the job simple because I get to wake up everyday and play GOD. (indha punch summa nachnu irundidhu
“It’s a feeling I can only experience never explain” ….good as long as it’s a happy feel, lot of thngs to keep writing abt tis post….the way d eyes will look @,,,stating tat we trusted u and u let us down … well @ d end… there is soooo much I experienced on reading tis post wich I can never explain
))
A “Twinking Star Yes” ……. phewww… no wordsssss ,,,,simple as it gets… but still
)
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vishnu vijayan | July 24, 2007 at 6:15 pm
okay…I’m leavin a comment here and not there as instructed…lol
Arnold here – if u’ve forgot.
Yes, I liked the clash (if I have to mention it explictly ) It was a great read, deep and dark (yes!) Enjoyed your reply to Suchitra also..I concur you there.
Read the comment from Karthik Balasubramaniam also…did not get the context of why he has mentioned it here..but if u have not found out still…it is from a movie named “SNATCH”
But…y do I get keep gettin a feelin that…..(rest there..he he he !)
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Suchitra | July 26, 2007 at 12:46 am
@Nivi
Agreed, there is pleasure in pain, and pain in pleasure. But I feel these terms are different from what is implied by ‘happiness’. There is happiness with pleasure, with pain, but not with sadness. For being ’sad’ is not equitable with pain or sorrow or bereavement (where one can find the fabric of happiness if he wants to), sadness is inability to find happiness. Again, this is what I think, no offense.
Regarding the other point, think about it. You hardly feel much when you stamp out a cockroach or kill a mosquito. You feel a lot when you pet dog dies. Your sorrow is almost boundless when a dear friend or relative passes away. The difference in degree of feeling, comes with how much appeal there is to your sense of being, by that life form.