Unserious Noticing

Unserious Noticing

Identifying oneself with the object of one's scorn
A paragraph from a James Thurber humour piece
 • Rahul Singh

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I came upon a couple of poems in Hindi with delicious titles.
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A book full of beautiful obstacles
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Some minds are like soup
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Wallowing In Delusions
Note: this week, like most weeks, I gyaff about a poem.
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The language question
This flash essay is part of a collaborative, constrained-writing challenge undertaken by some members of the Bangalore Substack Writers Group. This…
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Varieties of viciousness
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The superiority of autorickshaws
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Pleasures of a perfect metaphor
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Soda and literature
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Blossom Book House, Bangalore
Impressions from the city I inhabit
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Rhythms of Subtle Suggestion
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On Gideon Haigh's Indian Summer
I must have first heard of Gideon Haigh in one of the numerous cricket podcasts I used to follow religiously.
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