Sunday, November 20, 2005

 

"Windmills of Your Mind"

I'm spellbound.

'Windmills of Your Mind' by Sting
Round, like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel.
Never ending or beginning,
On an ever spinning wheel
Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnaval balloon
Like a carousell that's turning
Running rings around the moon

Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes on it's face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Like a tunnel that you follow
To a tunnel of it's own
Down a hollow to a cavern
Where the sun has never shone
Like a door that keeps revolving
In a half forgotten dream
Or the ripples from a pebble
Someone tosses in a stream.

Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes on it's face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Keys that jingle in your pocket
Words that jangle your head
Why did summer go so quickly
Was it something that I said
Lovers walking allong the shore,
Leave their footprints in the sand
Was the sound of distant drumming
Just the fingers of your hand

Pictures hanging in a hallway
And a fragment of this song
Half remembered names and faces
But to whom do they belong
When you knew that it was over
Were you suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
To the color of her hair

Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning,
On an ever spinning wheel
As the images unwind
Like the circle that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Pictures hanging in a hallway
And the fragment of this song
Half remembered names and faces
But to whom do they belong
When you knew that it was over
Were you suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
To the color of her hair

Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning,
On an ever spinning wheel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

 

Bookworm

I'm reading 'Softwar' and 'The Nudist on the Late Shift' these days. Other work in progress includes 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' and 'The Dilbert Principle'. Haah, so much to read. Just finished 'The Art of Start' by the way.
More about the books - later perhaps. I'm just listing links for now.

Saturday, November 05, 2005

 

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

I am still in the process of assimilating this book. But I felt the urge to pour some uncooked thoughts here. This book certainly is not a regular read and only few will be able to manage to complete it(I hope I can! Less than 200 pages to go).

Questioning rationality and principles of science was unthinkable for me before reading this book. I somehow managed to reason "rationality" in those days. Randomness was something I used to rely a lot to explain irrationality (explain irrationality! oxymoron of sorts. I'm too rational :-)). That would change once I finish this book. Ah, few more hours.

 

ON@TCC

Bad. I didn't quite like even Chetan's first book "Five Point Someone", for it cheated its readers with black and white potrayal and stereotypical characters. Chetan's attempt at writing another masala book seems to have failed somewhat even by others' standards- people who liked the first book, met few while travelling back from home. "Five Point Someone" was unique in some sense, "One night @ the call centre" is not. It has the same style of narration. Though I must admit I haven't read the entire book, I couldn't, for, one it was a borrowed book on the same journey I mentioned earlier, and other, I didn't quite feel the urge to.

On a sidenote I noticed my reading speed change with different fonts noticably. I was going quite well, but my reading speed dropped with change of font in one of the chapters. The new font was similar to "Trebuthet MS" and it was surprising for me to find that good old "times new roman" is the best readable font.

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