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Posted: 16 years ago
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*reserved for all parts...

edit 1:sorry for the extreme delay Sookie, um gona comment on every part once the fic is done, in detailll, i promise...though um zapped and completely moodless ryt now, um just gonna say...smg abt your third and fourth part made me smile and yet become more sad and gloomy at the same time....just...smg very touching i cate xplain at the moment...i will hit ya back laterzz, um making no sense now...

tadazz...

...kiran/..

Edited by Pebblez - 16 years ago
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Posted: 16 years ago
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hey nice chapter..really nice..keep it up..thankx 4 the pm..
❤️MONA
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Posted: 16 years ago
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woah sookie
loved the convo
yay!!!!!! u r writing series
plz PM me wen u update chapter 1
loved it
waiting for armaan's entry........... 😳
take care
love rabu
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Posted: 16 years ago
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Hey,

Sorry for the late reply…I wanted time to think about the update and post a comment befitting it. I can understand why this has become your favourite series; it has easily become one of mine and I've just read the prologue. To think there are at least four more of these gems waiting for me…the very thought gives me goosebumps.

You managed to capture my attention from the very go. I love that bit (it's from Auguries of Innocence isn't it) that goes…

"To see a world in a grain of sand
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour."

Though I had learnt about it in school, I must admit had forgotten all about (since my leanings have always been more towards prose than poetry) until I listened to Jolie quote it in Tomb Raider and decided to look up such evocative words.

I loved your Armaan, so intriguing…a boy who's at first sight the life and soul of the party (I know I'm assuming here but still….) yet is sensitive enough to be affected by nature's moods and seeks the solitude they decree…a jock who carries around a personally annotated copy of Frost's poetry…talk about a riddle wrapped in an mystery!!!

And your Riddhima, she who has a theory for every occasion…extremely endearing! The fact that she's "on the outside looking in", a perennial observer and voracious reader was beautifully conveyed and added to the pull of the character. She's certainly blossomed into a woman of substance (again beautifully put across!). Loved that little aside with the senior consultant and how it sort of followed into the flashback and the core of the narrative.

You sweetheart, are a past master at character sketches! I remember seeing a clip once of a master painter creating one of his pieces…a few seemingly random brushstrokes and suddenly out of the chaos and the confusion, a coherent image just burst out!!! Your writing reminds me of that. Like the way you managed to convey the fact that Riddhima while living a full life; on some level is still in a state of waiting.

Thanks so much for the pm and do update again soon. Can't wait to read the journal same as Riddhima!
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Posted: 16 years ago
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oki...i'm going to edit this comment after every chapter i read...done with, i guess what you call the intro now...?...
i was wondering if what you wrote here was purely a figment of your imagination? not to be probing into your personal life at all, its more like, i didn't realize...almost...well more like i didn't realize it in concrete words for a very resembling real thing i seem to have known...only, i wonder if this is luck the good way or bad, that the 12th grade open worded declaration as you put it, didn't come as just that....nonetheless...the carcass is so complete a fit...it makes me wonder, how such idyllic romanticism (i know i'm staling too many of your words...they fit, since im talking about what they come to me as 😊 )can not only be so real, but practically possible, and if theres more than the one case i know of in the world which fits it, frankly...i'd be damned...like...seriously.
made a great read of course, in terms of writing your works are always grea works...i've started forming my analysis from how much they lead me to introspecting...i was almost wishing i could go back to high school and earn the days of detention i never had...tragically, i declare the misfortune of it now, i was pretty much ridhima, much worse, not even on detention...armaan seems another level of adventure....yeh...i wish grad school had the concept of detention...alas...oki...back to the next chapter... :)
ps: its amazing, how for the highest order impatience i'm usually associated with, i find myself reading every part of your writing only ater sufficient gaps from the previous...usually...no almost always, thats never the case...alright..enough from me, im back...


*edit 2*
sookie, read c:1....need to run for a 45 minutes event i was suppose to show up at like 30 minutes ago...but yeh...i'll be back...after that :)

right...back...more than 45 minutes later...but oh well...sookie you had me going back to the year i was smitten SEVERELY with reading verses...started with the usual like frost and wordsworth of course...but ...i read very random stuff too...the unknwons...and the knowns...think my fav came to be seth and yeats...by the time the year was over...but then i just went back to reading prose :D
amd today i was so nostalgic...the constellation verse, which you're right isnt one of his most famous pieces, was something we had used for a street play once...and i literally still remembered the lines...anyways...went back and issued the frost poetry compilation from '69 :D thanks a bunch...the writing now isnt just making me think, its making me act!!! 😃
love the sense of one of its kind relationship they share, which is comfortable to the extent nothing else can be, and yet they continue being strangers...not just for the ehck of people...yeh...although ridhima talks of her reasons to have not mentioned him ever, i still think its not limited to just outsiders...its their thing...to hold the bond exactly this way :) and yes...i'm OK with it 😃...later then, until you post the next...i wonder, even more than the part, what part of frost will title it!


*edit*
chapter:2...there was a significant part of ridhima there i could tally with, almost as if she was a clone...the particular lines i jotted into my journal for keepsakes...

"As I said, it is nice to be with him. We go to games, movies, caf and have a really good time. But there are times when I want to just talk about a book I have read or want to talk about a character from a movie and at that time I feel terribly alone since he is not that interested in that stuff. He either changes topic or suddenly changes plans and whisks me away somewhere. Sometimes, I feel intellectually handicapped when I am with him."...

it astounded me to realize, how i had never gotten down to pinning it as exactly the issue with somethings in my life...beautiful thought...not in the usual way...just, the usual Sookie-leads-to-introspection thing....this one was phenomenal!...

i like their quiet companionship in general...sometimes, i think, there would be moments when the need to be together would be dire...not the romantic in love way...but..in need and situation...but for the most i think its very acceptable, despite being outrageously not the traditional idea of being together...

will read chap 3 in a while i guess and be back...

*edit*
read chapter three last night sookie, the first thing i did after dumping my bags from the week long travel into a corner and without changing...also the last i could do, before i went to bed...
and i'm going to apologize for this, but for that part, i will not be able to comment...nonetheless...i red part 4 now...so im onto that....
to begin with, i was rather surprised when i read that the first time you read that particular one of frost's works, you were bored by the first two lines...not that i imply no one could be...its just, i guess...the first time i read the poem...it was those very two lines :) everytime ever since, i've been on a drive, of any form, when my mind has had the luxury to dwell in thoughts and not the traffic, (i've tried to make it happen often enough to not forget the feeling) i've been reminded of those lines...in fact if i speak in all honesty...its the first two and last two lines of that verse that have made me think, everytime i read them i seem to come up with a new meaning added...oh well...nah..i know...poetry in an inappropriate set of mind, is one of the ironic mismatches...i have to say, despite the fact thats its not my favorite by frost, its been one i've thought about often...those two lines in particular...and i was delighted hence when you chose it...
and to the way you connect it with the ongoing telling of your tale...its...thought provoking...for in some ways, a life changing moment, can't really be just a passing glimpse...yet...the way you held the metaphor made all the sense in the world...i like the fact...erm more like, i recognize the feeling, of her admitting to this change being vital, and its remains in her mind being indelible....despite her absolute acceptance of the fact that her emotion in reaction to the same wasn't the expected....in my mind, i don't know if this concurs with what you intended to portray or not, its precisely this contradiction of the whole scenario, which is phenomenal in its impact forever...
...of course, i loved it!

chpa5: just read it... and to be honest... i didn't read it the way you wrote it... in a non interrupted continuity that is... nonetheless... the verse did fit the description... of course... i had wondered how the story will progress but well... i didnt get to much of a conclusion and had to wait for you to update... now that you did, you even asked for suggestions :)

i have to mention two verses , frost of course, that occurred to me in general, without thinking of that which you asked for... The Dream Pang, and The Dust of Snow... i'm certain you must have read 'em both, and i think i will safely assume you know why and where i could have thought of them, in what context for what link...
the part was good... not my favorite... perhaps because... erm ... lets say it was real in my mind yes, but not one i particularly would think about for very long... for reasons im incapable of defining with precision... nonetheless its carried forth the track well... and the verse was a fit... i think part of my trouble comes from the fact that i felt the philosophy and thought of the the thing overtale the strength of characters for me... they could have been any other... could have actually been none just an entry randomly discovered on apage worn out in an old library... and i think i prefer the idea of feeling it through the characters and their life much more... yes... at least thats a significant part of why i think i wont think as much about the part in revelation as it rightfully ought to be thought about... vharacters... any they may be... hold an indisputable appeal for me... if they hold the forte well there have been times ive found myself to read philosophies and thoughts i wouldnt quite consider worth much of my time... and i think i missed that... a tad bit... other thyan that, yeh technically it was all good... couldnt think of a specific follow up id like to see you work on... and yet the dream pang seemed like it might just make a spot... especially from the last few lines of your part... who knows :D

oki thats me for now sookie!... hope to see a part soon :)

cheers! ... until later :)

Edited by spln - 16 years ago
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Posted: 16 years ago
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pls cont soon yaar...its jes awsum..do cont soon..tats the onli thing i cn say...!@!

thx ton 4 pm
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Posted: 16 years ago
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One such read i came across in your diary
I blinked a few times still lost in the mist
Confirming my senses, i closed my eyes
Tears rolled down my cheeks, a smile touched my mouth
The entry was about, our first meet....

....ziz!

ps...nah i dunno what i was trying to imply by that...so watever you make of it..!!
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Posted: 16 years ago
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hey......its awesome....very different...but i love it.....thanks for pm...n please do continue soon

DEVIKA
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Posted: 16 years ago
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Sookie.. ur every word speaks volumes... reading ur writings always n always make me think more and introspect more.. i know i am repeating it.. but thats the fact.... for now just waiting to read the next part...
@nijal.. awesome poem sweetheart.. liked it so much...
Edited by Prasanthi - 16 years ago
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Posted: 16 years ago
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hey sookie,
i have to confess...after reading each of your updates i feel horribly inadequate...with words that is! i just don't know what comment to write...it would be an understatement if i say i loved it!! every time i see you have updated, i just want to just sit on a window sill and read it all in one go, without interruption, like Riddhima does with Armaan's diary. 😊 reading the parts makes me feel that i am sharing a bit of someone elses life. i know i am not making much sense, sorry about that.
About the part, well, for me, the little conversation between Armaan-Riddhima at the party stole the show. armaan is such a contradiction in himself. he is the cool dude of the school, yet he voluntarily takes detention to reflect?!! he writes poetry in his diary as well as recipes? Riddhima too...the little insights into her life makes her so real.
in a last word..
"Live life the fullest, Riddhima. Don't alienate people around you. In the end, loneliness is always a choice."
Awesome thought! update super soon...and thanks for the PM.
loads of love,
mia

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