Aphorisms of Non-entities and Series of Non-Situations

1. We deny ladders and places to some writers on account of their unnatural inclinations towards romantic sentiments and sensibilities. P. Padmarajan is one among them; but perhaps he may be the one and only writer, as per my little knowledge, who considers Man as an unfathomable riddle (to put in one of his favourite terms, “Prahelika”) consisting of labyrinthine knots and NOTs. Really a death blow to the Freudian advocates of female Histeria.
2. Another romantic who drives my attention is, of course, K. Surendran who in Maranam Dhurbalam makes an astounding remark that a posted letter does never belong to the post-box. Here, the poet-protagonist is describing his first child. Though she was conceived in and delivered by his wife, it actually belongs to his lover Mayamma.
3. Even the most subversive and bohemian forms of artistic expression could not disown the Oedipalised strategies of familialism. When Salvador Dali became unfavourable to the dons of Surrealistic Syndicate, they began to describe Dali in the past, as if he were dead.
4. In Euro-American contexts, race, religion, nationality and other ethno-based problems still persist. But, man-woman relations, comparatively placed in relation to Afro-Asian countries, get evolved there transgressing such boundaries. This simply shows that there family is either almost disintegrated or democratised itself. At last Shylock has withdrawn into his own domain realising the true role of a true father while dealing with the marriage question of his daughter.
5. One can subjugate or dominate others by force. Whether the act of subjugation or domination is right or wrong is entirely a different question, belonging to the ethical sphere. But there are so many who try to do the same by means of their disabilities and weaknesses. They try to convince themselves and others that these weaknesses are their strengths. Such persons are doomed in a way in which doom itself disowns them. There is another possibility; turning one’s weaknesses into one’s strengths. It’s a different transformative process, practice and performance. Heightlessness is my height says Kunjunni Mash.
6. Throughout his life, he went in search of birds. He was madly in love with them. He visited so many places to have a sight of birds: plains, forests, groves, gardens and orchards. But his desire was not fulfilled. One day from the tongue of a Chinese monk, he learnt that great and invaluable lesson: if you transform yourself into a garden, birds will come and build their nests in your heart. That night he sighed his last breath. Worms and vermins came and built his grave.
7. Quite often casual meetings end up in casualties especially when it is between a bachelor and a married man. The bachelor informed the married chap that as per the belief of the ancient Greeks the husbands would grow horns if their wives happened to practice adultery. The next morning onwards, our married man started looking into a mirror whether his head was honoured with a pair of horns.
8. It is high time for the critics to bring Kamala Das out of the confessional cloisters as Deleuze had picked up Kafka and thrown him out from the Kindergarten bench.
9. She was asymmetrical, deformed, imperfect and I would even say, incomplete. But she did possessed an inner glow; a unity that rushed radiating out of her unfinished parts.