God was Murdered

I’ve 7 annoying OCDs. One of them is to steal ‣ snatch ‣ shop for books. For the last 15-odd years, each month, I've added 3-5 books to my shelves. I read about 1-2 books a month.   In 2022, I’ve 583 books & I’ve read 267 of them. 583 minus 267: 316 remain unread. ▪︎‣ • Things That ✫ can & cannot ✫ be said ▪︎‣ • has been staring at me shamelessly since 2019. After resisting her for 3 years, I finally picked her off my shelf & hooked up with this dirty damsel. This skinny book is a skimpy collection of snippets of rants ‣ & ‣ revelations amongst  • Awesome Foursome • 1 .   Anti-Nationalist pound-Millionaire Arundhati Roy [who wants “Middle-class to die.”] 2 .  Ex A-list Moviestar John Cusack [who reckons “Hollywood is a Whorehouse”] 3 .  Edward Snowden [Claim-to-Fame: Leaking highly-classified NSA documents] 4 .  Daniel Ellsberg [Snowden of Vietnam War — Leaked Pentagon Papers]. Their two-day rendezvous happened in room 1001, ...

• ✫ ⤠ Romance is an elaborate illusion like God & Free Will • ✫ ⤠ If Romance imitated reality, it wouldn’t have fascinated humans at all . Reality is boring. That’s why Marvel makes Billions. ⤠⤠⤠⤠⤠⤠⤠⤠⤠⤠⤠⤠⤠ Name• Romance Three Lives• 5798 days 1 st Birth• 1 st April 2005 3 rd Death• 14 th February 2021 Tombstone• “And you thought true romance never dies.” That’s the timeline of the •births & deaths• of the three true romances of my inelegant life. It wasn’t until I was 23 that I bumped into a girl I felt insane about. In the next 17 years, I ran into two girls who floated along my blood & turned my life into a bohemian rhapsody. ⤠⤠⤠⤠⤠⤠⤠⤠⤠⤠⤠⤠⤠ Earlier today, I finished reading Oscar Wilde’s [1890] — The Picture of Dorian Gray. Lord Henry Wotton’s hundreds of delightful cynicisms like  —I can sympathize with everything, except suffering —  — A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he doesn’t love her—   made my frosty heart chuckle & my witheri...