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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. ...

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