I must confess, i am not a book worm and unable to finish a book at one go!!A good book is not a glass of water to be gulped down a thirsty throat!Rather,it is like a glass of wine in the hands of a wine taster !! Right from the cover page to the jacket,the book up to the last page is to be savoured in all its aesthetic resplendence. To me a tactile experience is first step towards this aesthetic journey. To hold the book in my hand, to flip its pages, to smell the fresh print which is no less in joy than to smell Petrichor after the first monsoon showers!! There results a sort of partnership between us. It becomes my companion to my place of work and various other places that my work may take me to...to fill up all unproductive moments. And when we do part company, the dog corners, the well thumbed pages, a broken spine, a scribble here or an asterict there, some highlighted phrases or uncommon words, a greasy page or an oily fingerprint---they all tell the tale of our journey together.
And many years later when I leaf through it's pages again, like the chronicles by a stealthy secret stalker, it lets tumble out the facets of my life that i never thought could be encapsulated in such a manner and Here!!!! I drown in the moments again!!!!!
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