Incineration of soul with antagonism often
credits the incredible insufficiency of my material sociability. Sometimes, it’s
really hard to survive the inessentiality of a stupid “mob” especially when you
know incongruous codes of their guises and play. They are all self-trained thespians of a
floating opera; a masquerade enacted for material gratifications. Their
lineaments are of folly and their masks are of self-declaring clowns of self-mockery.
Polluted smiles from their hollow façade
crucify my existential credos on the 'altar of "Frailty"', what 'he' once called. It is true that a dead fly causes the ointment
of the apothecary to send forth a stinking smell.
She had just celebrated her hundredth birthday. A hundred years. The number fascinated me more than the life it contained. I looked at her and thought, What a blessing. Imagine living for a century. At that age, I still measured life in quantity. I had not yet learned that years accumulate differently from meaning. She rarely spoke. The world had slowly withdrawn from her senses. Food no longer delighted her. Conversations dissolved before reaching her. The pleasures that once animated her existence had become distant rumours from another life. She had possessed almost everything one could desire—a loving husband, a beautiful home, security, comfort, longevity. By every conventional measure, she had won. Yet old age is a peculiar thief. It does not steal all at once. It removes things patiently, one by one, until only a few fragments remain. For Anne, only three things survived the wreckage. Her husband. Her home. And the longing to return. Every day she asked the same questions. ...

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