Great minds, legendary, larger than life men with minds of their own, have peculiar rituals in place to communicate even the most obvious. The common ordinary might wonder aloud, even exclaim, But the Emperor has no clothes, Ma, but that's not how elephants whisper. They probably praise and keep praising the emperor through the entire parade, singing paeans, never once suggesting, even through a careless expression, that anything's amiss; and will then perhaps create a good reason to halt, ostensibly for the emperor to take in more public glory, before a shop selling mirrors...maybe they'll message ahead to vassals to create a reason for the procession to stop at a shop with many mirrors. Yeah, elephants communicate this way. Man's history is testimony to that...look at rules of decorum, diplomacy, carriage, court manners and so on and so forth...how often have elephants reinforced and attempted to culture this talent within coarser common minds.
Ramachandra Guha - fantastic author whose books I always purchase, read and treasure - does this elephantine whispering to Sachin tendulkar through his article titled, rather carefully, Why Tendulkar must retire now, available at ESPN-Cricinfo for all to read. He espies a shop selling mirrors along the route.
It isn't as much brazen or boorish to pause the parade at a mirror shop.., no sir, not as much as the ordinary folks tweeting or blogging thir minds about it for two years now. You have to follow the rituals.
Sachin Tendulkar is a legend; those who pass themselves off as his fans think he is God and react as such, in the fashion of our times, with great religion; I am convinced, however, Sachin himself perceives himself to be nothing more than an extraordinary mortal. Maybe even just as a plain mortal with a beginning and an end given the high intellect he has always shown throughout his long, public, pressure-laden productive career. Never a misstep.
Ramachandra Guha - fantastic author whose books I always purchase, read and treasure - does this elephantine whispering to Sachin tendulkar through his article titled, rather carefully, Why Tendulkar must retire now, available at ESPN-Cricinfo for all to read. He espies a shop selling mirrors along the route.
It isn't as much brazen or boorish to pause the parade at a mirror shop.., no sir, not as much as the ordinary folks tweeting or blogging thir minds about it for two years now. You have to follow the rituals.
Sachin Tendulkar is a legend; those who pass themselves off as his fans think he is God and react as such, in the fashion of our times, with great religion; I am convinced, however, Sachin himself perceives himself to be nothing more than an extraordinary mortal. Maybe even just as a plain mortal with a beginning and an end given the high intellect he has always shown throughout his long, public, pressure-laden productive career. Never a misstep.
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