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मंदार शिंदे
Mandar Shinde

Sunday, November 30, 2014

स्मृतिभ्रंश

हेवे-दावे
रुसवे-फुगवे
द्वेष-असूया
चीड-संताप
राग-नाराजी
तुझं-माझं
तुझ्यामुळं-माझ्यामुळं
तेव्हा-आत्ता
जर-तर
सगळं-सगळं
अगदी सगळं
इथंच सोडून
माणसं जातील निघून.
आणि मग?
काय करायचं
या सगळ्याचं?
आठवत तर राहणारच की,
केलेलं - न केलेलं.
सगळ्यांना कुठं वर असतो,
स्मृतिभ्रंशाचा?


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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

It's not all about the coin...

"...it's not all about the coin, Your High-and-Mightiness. I learned that a long time back, at my first battle. Morning after the fight, I was rooting through the dead, looking for the odd bit o' plunder, as it were. Came upon this one corpse, some axeman had taken his whole arm off at the shoulder. He was covered with flies, all crusty with dried blood, might be why no one else had touched him, but under them he wore this studded jerkin, looked to be good leather. I figured it might fit me well enough, so I chased away the flies and cut it off him. The damn thing was heavier than it had any right to be, though. Under the lining, he'd sewn a fortune in coin. Gold, Your Worship, sweet yellow gold. Enough for any man to live like a lord for the rest o' his days. But what good did it do him? There he was with all his coin, lying in the blood and mud with his fucking arm cut off. And that's the lesson, see? Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying..."

- Brown Ben from 'A Dance With Dragons' by George R.R. Martin


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