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Monologue of Bell Hook's daughter (Sub-altern Fiction)

It was a windy June Sunday. For Bell would have named the day a wuthering day but she has seen worse living in Brighton. Hence, not just yet. When Emily Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights , Bell believed that Emily Bronte or erstwhile Currer Bell was most certainly trying to draw parallels between the internal and external torrents; there is something tragic to reflect and soothing to feel when there is an external calamity in form of thunderstorm or lightning etc., that ostensibly emulates one's internal clamour. Although far from home, yet Bell holds home nearly but it may not be possible to always hold it dearly. Though things are settling down inside Bell now, this phase is always past the phase of great upheaval and torment. Women are said to be prone to hysteria; Bell's father always defined her behaviour as hysterical too. While, she understood over time, men find it impossible to justify women's behaviour, she could never bring herself to question her behaviour; there w...

A Forgetful Civilization

There is a thing about human civilization or an aspect of it, it seems these days that it develops or accurately manages to remain in existence because of its revivalism of eras, more like the renaissance isn't exclusive to a particular era or region but if it wasn't to its name then often do we live in renaissance, coming in phases. It comes in multiple or single section(s) of our lives. We develope a pattern of habits and pursue it until changes begin to drop hints and lead to a paradigm shift.  In general, we do something for a long time, until we subconsciously change it or forget about it. This leads to a change, it might happen to an individual or a group at large or even to a whole generation. Sometimes, voluntarily acquired habits work as long as it is involuntarily retained in the background of the mind like muscle memory, and not foregrounded; it is a slippery slope. It works till you do not pay heed to it and changes as soon as you acknowledge it to consciousness. ...

Raise the Volume

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To the guy who wears shades of blue And is so tall as to medley with the sky of springs Who carries a guitar on his back as if a knight with a sword tucked in the scabbard  Which he lifted years later Sit by my side and I shall show you what hurricanes have done to my childhood  As if it was ransacked to find this adulthood out of it  I promise however viscous your emotions and dilemma might be  I would swim us back to shore and would try not to give up this time  Come here I'll tune your strings And it will all be fine  A brew of security and insecurity,  What are you, isn't it the same how you see me too?  What a sadist I do look, seeking pleasure in breaking the walls you have groomed Where did you lose your keys, is it in the same place where my butterflies had frozen?  Against all their prayers, your fears and worldly hymns It shall only be your voice that I'll allow Said or unsaid to be hear...

Free

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Cliff hangers are something that make you anxious, at the same time these are the very thing that one won't deny has a potential of giving you the most pleasure. It is how people are imbued with hysteria, they get extremely happy and extremely sad, especially when a thing is about to begin. This is where 'stoicism' comes into play, stoicism is a practice that has got a certain definition but to be precise you can say, it is a practice in which you ensure that nothing can hurt you but everything comes with a price, here if you ensure nothing hurts you, you pay the price of your happiness, I remember when I had heard someone quoting," I have seized their power of making me happy, hence I have taken their rights of saddening me." Boarding the train in the middle of the afternoon, the clock showed 13:39. The sun was empowered only during the days since it was during winter. It shone in the open fields and its golden hue was flowing across and through. At times...

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