""And from one corner of that temple, from behind a pillar, the Evil One stepped out and approached me. I could see it - oh it was so ugly! It said to me, whispering in a low voice - like this - Come with me. Together we will be strong. We will be friends and together we will go out and make fools of the people and laugh at them and grow rich."
"Did I listen to it?""Well, I stood, listening, and then I made such a face - like this! - and I pushed, pushed, pushed, pushed with all my strength - oof! I pushed till I had sent the Evil One back into the hole from which it had come. And I stamped, stamped, stamped on it to keep it down, down, down - with all my force, yes.""
-Anita Desai, Journey to Ithaca, p. 101















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Once the dualities are acnowledged and appreciated............

"Yes! Every day is like a treasure hunt. It's too good. God only knows what else we'll find, no pun intended."
-Lahiri, 153













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“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
















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Life seemed caught in an endless cycle that promised cheap excitement but inevitably led to frustration.
-Kumar, 86

















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"Where thou art, that is home."
-Emily Dickinson














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"What is the meaning of a word?
Let us attack this question, first, what is an explanation of the meaning of a word; what does the explanation of a word look like?
The way this question helps us in analagous to the way the question "how do we measure length?", "what is meaning?", "what is the number one?" etc., produce us in a mental cramp. We feel that we can't point to anything in reply to them and yet ought to point to something. (We are up against one of the great sources of philisophical bewilderment : a substantive makes us look for a thing that corresponds to it.)
-Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Blue and Brown Books, p. 1












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“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these”
-Emily Dickinson






























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