Saturday 15 October 2011

On Being a Grown Up

"Life gradually became less a search for meaning than a process of optimization: how to put this sentence the best way in the fewest words, how to choose the right things to buy at the supermarket and pay for them in the fastest-moving line, what to do and ingest in order to keep from getting sick or depressed..."

The essential difference between brahmacharya and grihastashram. Taken, a little out of context and beyond all consequences, from In The World, by Elif Batuman, in a recent New Yorker.

2 comments:

Vishnu Vasudev said...

Do you have a post coming on why you moved from Moon Balls to Limca Cuts?

Prithvi Chandrasekhar said...

@ Vishnu...yes. The simple answer is that I was getting bored with Moon Balls after three-ish years. But I need to explain what Limca Cuts are.