Atlas Shrugged -=>
"I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits aone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind -- & it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression."
Reason would suggest that analyzing these set of words in the current context & existing scenario would not do sufficient justice to the authors brilliance & would definitely defeat the spirit for which these words stand...
The first edition of the book was published in the fifties which was a decade when smoking was a fad to put it modestly, the then medical fraternity was blisful to the connection between smoking & carcenoma...
The one thing which I would like to say about the author is that shez got the gift for extression how else can anyone come up with analogies & associations that she has in her literary works...
Cooling heels in HYD, its a nice feeling being back home...
Signing off!!!
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2 comments:
Heylo! U blog too... hmm!
So, wat doing in hyd???
on n off!!! 4 sure not as heavy as u...
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