Ok, so I wanted to thank all of you for writing in and it's easiest to do so on one post.
Here goes:
Thank you all, but please stop jumping to conclusions!
Why on earth would you think this is the last part with a major plot device still left unresolved? I tend to be a little obsessive about not leaving loose ends, in case you haven't read my other ff's, and so I am constitutionally unable to leave things incomplete and unresolved.
Many of you also want an explication of Bani's reasoning….well a part of the answer will be there in the next part, but the crux of it is here in some of the replies, I've put them in bold so that you can find them easily.
Chickster- Thank you. Glad to know you liked this. Refer to reply above.
Timmy- Thank you. Nope it was not a question or even a proposal. It was a statement of fact! But then that's what I love about Jai, once he has decided to do something, he just goes ahead and does it! As for the wrapping up…..sigh…..refer to reply above.
Divan- Thank you. Refer to first reply.
M3ghna- Thanks for dropping by. Did not know that you read my ff. But I am glad that you liked it, thank you.
Aashnaa5- my goodness I was beginning to wonder where you had disappeared. In fact, I wondered enough to actually consider sending a pm…..sorry, that's as far as I got!
I am so glad you read the book. Did you like it? Have you finished it? Obviously it is still at the forefront of your consciousness if Ms LaMotte is the first one you though of!
Don't worry about the numbering: this is part 21. and only two more to go. And then it's Finis.
You are like this Bani; every woman is. Each woman has own share of charm and elegance and yes, even beauty. Don't ever let anyone convince you otherwise!
As to whether this is the last part please refer to first reply!
Nina- the same nina right? Forgive me but I tend to be a very confused soul when it comes to things like directions and names…..am really glad that you liked this part. Am even gladder that you did not assume this to be the end! Thank you for that!
XB- sorry for the abbreviation but I just can't remember the spelling, thank you so much. I am really glad you liked this part enough to forget that you are a Coolbie and post in CAPS! I appreciate the compliment. And please refer to the first reply.
Sheena- That you pulled into a gas station to finish reading it has to be one of the BEST compliments I have ever received! Thanks a huge bunch. And you are far too kind in saying that. I think the honours are evenly divided amongst many writers, yourself included. But thank you nonetheless. Oh and hopefully this is the last thread.
Smitra- Thank you so much, Glad you liked it.
Ridhijai- Thank you R. Of course she had to lay the ground rules, she knows better than all of us what a duffer he can be!
Suwas- Thank you and yes, I am so glad you pointed that out; as soon as he saw her none of the rationalisations and angry accusations mattered.
Tushi- Thank you, hope I did not make you wait too long this time round. But as I pointed out in my last reply….actually let me just quote it:
"Incidentally, writing like this takes time you know. hours all together. i mean this update is six plus pages on Word. and first i have to think it up, then type it up then wait till i am satisfied with it, sometimes a particular word, or sentence ar action just does not read right.... takes a while pal, doesn't just magically appear!
next update?
haven't the faintest clue.
why not just enjoy it as it comes?
more peaceful that way!" incidentally, the current update is 8 pages long. So you see, it takes time. At least for me it does.
Twinkle- Thank you.
Pooks- thank you, and yes, I agree, Bani needs all the TLC that JW wants to shower on her!
Siumi- Thank you.
Sangi- Thank you. I am really glad that you liked this part. Why does it matter so much that he should verbally know that she is the same woman? Just curious about your reasoning.
Benazir- Thank you so much. And please refer to first reply.
Ejazanita- Thank you so much. Am really glad that you liked this part. And a clarification, I do not send pm's to inform people that I have updated. The only exception was the part I posted after my 2 and half month hiatus. And then it was to all the people who had sent me a pm and the said pm's were still sitting in my inbox. So please don't feel that I forgot you.
"that he needs HER he just think of only sleepin or wat?coz it sounds to me like that as he already denied the other feelings!!!!"
Why would you equate NEED with physical intimacy?
Actually you have managed to Startle me because that was the one context I did not use the word Need for! I used the word Need in a more emotional, personal sense of the meaning. Hope that clarifies.
Saksena- Thank you. That is a very sweet compliment indeed. But alas, I found KS to be beyond redemption quite a few months back, so I stopped watching it back then. Trust me, makes life easier and simpler. And keeps my blood pressure down too!
Mahimn- Welcome back . Was really beginning to miss you and your questions!
As for chilly/ cold weather—a very subconscious act on my part. Now that you have pointed it out, I have thought about it and I suppose it's because I know how muggy delhi and summers in north India can be. And try as I might I cannot make my heroine look sexy when she is sweating buckets….now if I were to write erotica, then I guess it would be in sultry, steamy weather settings!
As for your other questions, read on and they shall be answered….good to have you back.
Preet – Thank you. Glad you liked the part.
Simz- Hello! Glad you liked it. But to answer your q, no it is not the drugs (good twist that would have been though!) but something more fundamental……the word Need. Interesting first meaning: "to require something or somebody because they are essential or very important, not just because you like to have them." Oxford Advanced Dictionary. The same dictionary in the romantic meaning of love gives it as : "a strong feeling of affection for somebody that you are sexually attracted to."
So, as far as I, the author am concerned, Need trumps Love, any day, any time.
Janu- Thank you.
Btkr- Thank you. Yeah, men and apologies and men and directions! Two great unsolved mysteries. What do they think will happen, the sky will fall on their heads?
That is really, really sweet thing to say. I am so sorry to have tell you that with another two parts, this ff will come to its end. But thanks you for saying that.
Nandita- Thank you. As for the why of Bani's acceptance, part of it is explained in the reply to Simz.
Sunju- Thank you.
MT- You already know of my ongoing war with technology! Should not have come as a surprise at all. Man, those silly things just refuse to hyperlink properly, keep opening random pages or telling me that no such page exists. I give up. I just plain give up.
Btw, Happy Birthday.
Jani- Thank you.
Iramanujam- Thank you.
Aarti- Thank you.
Shiya- Thank you and please call me Armana, everyone does. My five year old nieces and nephews call me by name, so no reason to call me di.
Nikita- Thank you.
Nema- Thank you.
Aimee- Thank you.
Nibbles- I am so sorry for ruining the endings to your favourite fairy tales. Guess I was just trying to make up for it! I think what you can't put your finger on is the change in pace: form being descriptive as TFS has largely been in the last few parts, this part is active. Although I do hope, the something different is something you enjoyed.
Kiranc- Thank you.
By the way, this was always planned. My own cynical understanding of happy endings not withstanding, I firmly believe that every story is driven to its own logical, rational narrative conclusion. I am not writing for a K-serial that I have to let go of rationality! This ff was planned along this trajectory, the number of parts increased because the descriptions and the dialogues became longer but in its plot line and story line, TFS was always planned to go this way. The actual part specific events- like their getting married in a tiny little Devi temple beyond Almora (it actually exists btw, a km's ahead of the turn off for the Jageshwar Temple Complex)- are worked out each time I sit down to write out the part and where I have to deal with the whims and fancies of these characters individually, but the broad outline was already set in stone.
Thanks for writing in guys,
Regards
Armana
Edited by armana - 17 years ago
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