In the search of lost time or Is it In search of lost times?

Click the bait

Those of you who are here and know me not- You will eventually. For now, let’s get to some non-business.

You might question my intentions with copy-paste links and not one or two, but 10! But I am glad for all the suggestions and know, I read every message, comment, no matter what. I am not yet Gaga.

I had a poll last weekend as to what people would like to see more of here. (Also, hurray! For Belladonna has reached 200+ signup) In my feeble defense of congratulating myself for a feat which is not rightly any, that don’t we all have access to internet? Apps? The dozen groups and communities that we are a part of? What Articles make a difference from being in my TOP 10 or ‘Just read’ listicles?

Only those, which you might have supposedly missed reading, but shouldn’t

Only those, which you might have wanted to but somehow this is where you would

Some writings are to be read, regardless of interest. The soft point of comfort being- you will feel interested! Feel like you needed to know, hear or talk about something. And I am your genie for bakchodi.

My content will always inspire you. Always. Only, you need to look. Click the bait

But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.

I think of Mary Ruefle’s words: “I used to think I wrote because there was something I wanted to say. Then I thought, ‘I will continue to write because I have not yet said what I wanted to say’; but I know now that I continue to write because I have not yet heard what I have been listening to.”

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10 ARTICLES WORTH YOUR WHILE AND ERSTWHILE

1. Reverse Predictions

2. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-letter-to-my-students-as-we-face-the-pandemic

3. When the braces came off at 13 – I chucked out my toothbrush. Ten years on and I have no fillings, extractions, or root canals. I’ve only ever had one filling and that was before I had braces – ironically when I did brush regularly. Pssssst…..Well, even I don’t brush everyday. What about you? I wrote a post on medium which you will find crazy or not, because it talks about me not brushing my teeth everyday!

4. This is the tale which is not fictionary AND IS HAPPENING to you

5. When I play with my cat,’ Montaigne mused, ‘how do I know that she is not playing with me rather than I with her?

6. A total of 27 sarcophagi buried more than 2,500 years ago have been unearthed by archaeologists in an ancient Egyptian necropolis.

7. https://www.sapiens.org/column/curiosities/archaeology-marijuana/ This is my favourite topic to talk about, quite highly.

8. I really follow these tips to make my content more reader friendly.

9. https://www.otis.edu/news/pandemic-reading-list-curated-otis-college-mfa-writing-faculty

10. https://deezlinks.substack.com/ A newsletter which you can subscribe to, I will try directing you towards other subscribe-worthy newsletter.

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WHAT I READ AND YOU WOULD TOO, if only you knew, so here it is:

I recently found out that I have been saving the names of the books I have learnt of through various other Articles I read and through uncommonly sources. And the days i don’t chit chat about what you MUST watch, I shall go on a spree with my reading listicles!

10 books which I have read and LOVED in some specific ways but I haven’t talked about on my favourite place to talk about books- Bookstagram!

I want you to tell me if you want me to review any of these- I will eventually talk if not review them, because I am kind of in middle of adding some 100 more books to this already swell list!

1. A Journal of the Plague Year

2. The Everything Creative Writing Book: All you need to know to write novels, plays, short stories, screenplays, poems, articles, or blogs

3. The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry

4. Libra (Contemporary American Fiction)

5. The Physics of Imaginary Objects

6. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

7. All the Names They Used for God

8. The Cold Vanish

9. For colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf: a choreopoem

10. Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women Writers

As they say, People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others, I will the decision of judging what you get from spending some minutes on this sub. If I bring some value to your grey cells or tickle your funny bone while maintaining my geeky vs nerdy vs sexy vibe, I will consider myself successful in bringing my internet browser history to you and revealing what I feel, in most unbiased, raw and light manner as possible.

I have every useless thing in the world in my house there. The only thing wanting is the necessary thing, a great patch of open sky like this. Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life, little boy,” he added, turning to me. “You have a soul in you of rare quality, an artist’s nature; never let it starve for lack of what it needs.

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Shalini