Thank you RB for your kind comment about being inspired to write Interlude I (chapter 16) by my queries regarding Arnav and Khushi's past. that is a compliment very few have bestowed upon me. Amd coming from you- it is a true compliment and I am honoured.
well, I hope those comments have softened you up for the following ones! Which, btw, are no comment on your excellent writing or creative skill, just on the two characters, the people they are.
I know I am in for a lot of flak for saying that my response to the two of them was to laugh at their letters to each other. Yes, I did laugh- they are so full of themsleves the two of them. for heaven's sake, how old are they? if I caught any of my 18-20 year od old undergrads expressing such views I'd ask them to stop being such pompus gits.
Arnav thinks the world around him is shit in which he is drowning, knows she'll come to grasp his hand only for him to drag her into the hole with him!!! And she instead of saying forget going down, I'm going to pull you out of it kicking and screaming and we will engage with the world, wants to create an equally isolated world for themselves.
Honestly either they are suffering from some form of inverted snobbery which makes them reject everything around them without even having tried to engage with the world around them or they are both seriously and clinically depressed and in urgent need of help! Teenageers are angst ridden- but theirs is way beyond normal.
Being different is very difficult, especially for young people who are brilliant and do not have the interests that the average sutdent has, I have students who are way brighter and way different from the rest of the class, but very rarely angst-ridden in the way Arnav and Khushi are. I have had very bright, angst-ridden students, but they have had genuine mental health issues.
I would love to hear from the readers, their views on what I have said. If anyone feels my views are unjustified, it is but one prespective and I am open to be persuaded otherwise. Do tell me what you all think. I'd love to hear your views RB, though you have moved on further in the story. I have been extremely busy these last few days, hence the delay in the comments though I read the updates as they came along.I can see where Khushi is coming from, she is driven partly by her nature and personality and, of course, the need to echo his thought, but I want to know more about Arnav, His letter reveals his perspectives on things when he was young, but what drove him to view the world so? He seems to be more balanced now, so has he outgrown that phase of life or is it that we have not seen enough of him in the present (or in the past) to know why he was filled with so much angst or if it has remained unchanged.
Is it their natures to be so angsty or it is something in their pasts that has made them so? What is it that draws them to each other? is this angst the cog that moves the wheel of their relationship? That really raises the interesting question of the nature of love.
But your writing was exquisite, RB- the metaphor of the puzzle falling to place only to reveal another picture only to them was superb.
Chapter 16, a conversation of the hearts, was one of the most uplifting ones in this story, RB, so poignant and yet so full of hope for the healing that has begun with the opening up of hearts.
Chapter 17, the confrontation, at last comes close to one the central events of the story, the event that triggers it all. Shyam, as I commented earlier is quite a mystery - why did he give her the photograph? I wonder what this motives were. And how did he get hold it? So was he Anjali's teacher? We need to know mre about this man and his wife.
Chapter 18- heartbreak and the aftermath of heartbreak. What words can console one who has lost everything without ever having had anything? But that is the way life is. The only consolation I can offer Lavanya is - may be there was a reason why it was not to be, Lavanya.
I am tempted to be very British and say- - well, are you sure you still want the man who would want to drag you into the hole that he is sinking into? But no, I won't.
Great job, RB. You've given us a few more pieces of the puzzle- what picture we create is, I guess, up to our own individual predilictions, prespectives and personal world views.
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