“Sit, drink your coffee here; your work can wait awhile.
You're twenty-six, and still have some life ahead.
No need for wit; just talk vacuities, and I'll
Reciprocate in kind, or laugh at you instead.


The world is too opaque, distressing and profound.
This twenty minutes' rendezvous will make my day:
To sit here in the sun, with grackles all around,
Staring with beady eyes, and you two feet away.”

#VikramSeth #SilentSunday #poetry

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“God save us from people who mean well.”

#VikramSeth

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The only thing better than any new Vikram Seth book are the interviews he gives to promote these books. 😻

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip0cvB1Oo3I

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"Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found. The strange journeys we undertake on our earthly pilgrimage, the joy and suffering we taste or confer, the chance events that leave us together or apart, what a complex trace they leave: so personal as to be almost incommunicable, so fugitive as to be almost irrecoverable."

#TwoLives, #VikramSeth #NonFiction
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Thought I was done with novels about music & obsessive love for the moment after recently reading the wonderful, but emotionally draining MAURICE GUEST (1908) by #HenryHandelRichardson.

Er... apparently not. I glanced at the first page of AN EQUAL MUSIC (1999) by #VikramSeth this afternoon & now suddenly I'm on page 80. It was my turn to cook tonight, but I can't put the book down. My partner's annoyed he has to cook, but I promised to do the dishes.

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