I am holding 'Go set a watchman' in hand for the past few hours. Am I reading it? No. Honestly I don't want to read it because it will end soon if I started reading. And I don't want it to end. You may find it strange but ask any passionate reader and they will tell you that's their biggest fear. That the book will end. To kill a mockingbird was a wonder. And I know that this too will be.
Harper Lee might have been a one-book wonder but she was a wonder alright. Not like other 'intellectual' one-book-earlier-and-now-two-book wonders.
More about the book if I can bring myself to read it.
Guess I am out of touch with everything right now, so no blog entry for many days. From many days, a question is bothering me. I haven't found a satisfactory answer yet. So I'll write it down here. Maybe anybody who reads this may know the answer. "Just because we are journalists, writers, opinion creators and thinkers, do we have the right to judge others? Either personally or professionally?" I think we don't have the right to judge a person, even if we are right. But as writers, we would have to judge others whether we like it or not. And it's very difficult forcing people to think, but that's what we are doing or pretending to be doing right? Another question: "How come life is so simple if you just let it live by itself without bothering much and so complicated if you try to manipulate it or even understand it?" Blessed are the ignorant. We who can understand everything, try not to let anything go by without understanding and thus miss the b
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