मेघदूत: "नीचैर्गच्छत्युपरि च दशा चक्रनेमिक्रमेण"

समर्थ शिष्या अक्का : "स्वामीच्या कृपाप्रसादे हे सर्व नश्वर आहे असे समजले. पण या नश्वरात तमाशा बहुत आहे."

G C Lichtenberg: “It is as if our languages were confounded: when we want a thought, they bring us a word; when we ask for a word, they give us a dash; and when we expect a dash, there comes a piece of bawdy.”

C. P. Cavafy: "I’d rather look at things than speak about them."

Martin Amis: “Gogol is funny, Tolstoy in his merciless clarity is funny, and Dostoyevsky, funnily enough, is very funny indeed; moreover, the final generation of Russian literature, before it was destroyed by Lenin and Stalin, remained emphatically comic — Bunin, Bely, Bulgakov, Zamyatin. The novel is comic because life is comic (until the inevitable tragedy of the fifth act);...”

सदानंद रेगे: "... पण तुकारामाची गाथा ज्या धुंदीनं आजपर्यंत वाचली जात होती ती धुंदी माझ्याकडे नाहीय. ती मला येऊच शकत नाही याचं कारण स्वभावतःच मी नास्तिक आहे."

".. त्यामुळं आपण त्या दारिद्र्याच्या अनुभवापलीकडे जाऊच शकत नाही. तुम्ही जर अलीकडची सगळी पुस्तके पाहिलीत...तर त्यांच्यामध्ये त्याच्याखेरीज दुसरं काही नाहीच आहे. म्हणजे माणसांच्या नात्यानात्यांतील जी सूक्ष्मता आहे ती क्वचित चितारलेली तुम्हाला दिसेल. कारण हा जो अनुभव आहे... आपले जे अनुभव आहेत ते ढोबळ प्रकारचे आहेत....."

Kenneth Goldsmith: "In 1969 the conceptual artist Douglas Huebler wrote, “The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.”1 I’ve come to embrace Huebler’s ideas, though it might be retooled as “The world is full of texts, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.” It seems an appropriate response to a new condition in writing today: faced with an unprecedented amount of available text, the problem is not needing to write more of it; instead, we must learn to negotiate the vast quantity that exists. How I make my way through this thicket of information—how I manage it, how I parse it, how I organize and distribute it—is what distinguishes my writing from yours."

Tom Wolfe: "The first line of the doctors’ Hippocratic oath is ‘First, do no harm.’ And I think for the writers it would be: ‘First, entertain.’"

विलास सारंग: "… इ. स. 1000 नंतर ज्या प्रकारची संस्कृती रुढ झाली , त्यामध्ये साधारणत्व व विश्वात्मकता हे गुण प्राय: लुप्त झाले...आपली संस्कृती अकाली विश्वात्मक साधारणतेला मुकली आहे."

Tuesday, July 06, 2021

कापणीचे दिवस, भविष्य आणि केशकर्तन...R K Narayan, GA and Sadanand Rege on Barber

कोविड मुळे मी जवळजवळ मार्च २०२० पासून केस कापायला बाहेर गेलेलो नाही, माझा मुलगा माझे केस कापतो आहे. 

R K Narayan:
“....Loquacious as usual and with the sharp blade scraping the soap, the barber had asked, “Coming out, I suppose?” Raju rolled his eyes and remained silent. He felt irritated at the question, but did not like to show it with the fellow holding the knife. “Just coming out?” repeated the barber obstinately.

Raju felt it would be no use being angry with such a man. Here he was in the presence of experience. He asked, “How do you know?”

“I have spent twenty years shaving people here. Didn’t you observe that this was the first shop as you left the jail gate? Half the trick is to have your business in the right place. But that raises other people’s jealousies!” he said, waving off an army of jealous barbers.

“Don’t you attend to the inmates?”
“Not until they come out. It is my brother’s son who is on duty there. I don’t want to compete with him and I don’t want to enter the jail gates every day.”
“Not a bad place,” said Raju through the soap.
“Go back then,” said the barber and asked, “What was it? What did the police say?”
“Don’t talk of it,” snapped Raju and tried to maintain a sullen, forbidding silence for the rest of the shave.
But the barber was not to be cowed so easily. His lifelong contact with tough men had hardened him. He said, “Eighteen months or twenty-four? I can bet it’s one or the other.”
Raju felt admiration for the man. He was a master. It was no use losing one’s temper. “You are so wise and knowing. Why do you ask questions?”
The barber was pleased with the compliment. His fingers paused in their operations; he bent round to face Raju and say, “Just to get it out of you, that is all. It’s written on your face that you are a two-year sort, which means you are not a murderer....”
(The Guide, 1958 )
 
जी ए कुलकर्णी:
"... कुणीतरी ते विचारावे यासाठीच जणू न्हावी अधीर झालेला दिसला. तो उत्साहाने म्हणाला , "माणसे गेली आहेत शेतात ! हे कापणीचे दिवस नव्हेत का ? मीच तेवढा या ठिकाणी मागे राहिलो, कारण माझा धंदाच तसला पडला. कसलीही यातायात न करता माझे पीक वाढत राहते आणि कापणीच्या वेळी शेतेच माझ्या दारात येतात !" आणि यावर वेडेवाकडे दात दाखवत तो एकदम हसला..." 
['यात्रिक', १९७५ (सत्यकथा) /१९७७ (पिंगळावेळ)]


सौजन्य: जी ए कुलकर्णी आणि सदानंद रेगे यांच्या साहित्याचे कॉपीराईट होल्डर्स, वाङ्मय शोभा जुलै १९५३, बुकगंगा.कॉम
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