NEMESIS: The Devils inside You
My brain is a tangle of mangled neurons. The thoughts forming in my mind are taking their own course then suddenly losing the plot and going any which way it likes. The urge to express my thoughts verbally has been lost somewhere in the loo that is blowing over North India. What is even worse is that I cannot write anything of much sense, and ending up thinking weirdly and negatively in a very cynical manner yet without the cynical sense of humor. There seems to be a lack of purpose, and of romance in my thoughts, and the dreary life of reasoning seems to have awakened in me finally, to drown me into its vast sea.
I can feel a certain unease in my thoughts, and also in the foreboding of more boring days to come. The quality of nervous spikes that are keeping me from dozing off is diminishing, and I am dozing off, slowly. Slow, yes that’s the word that suits the moment. Things are very slow and there is that hint of monotony creeping up already. Desperation, it is rising in my soul, to break into something more livelily and be alive in some way.
The food! That must be the reason! The food is excellent for making our tummies burst like stuffed up crap bags. The North Indian style of vegetarian fare is not an encouraging feeling for someone growing on fish and meat protein from the coast. I feel afraid when I think about all the unhealthy carbohydrates accumulating in my brain making it do Goo Goo Gaa Gaa instead of Rock Music.
So I think, while I am doing something about combating viruses, i.e., helping fellow human beings to rid themselves of these terrible felons, I must say, I have become intrigued by their simplicity, yet adaptability. Never have there been organisms which have been so fit to live yet so simple in composition, yet so not obsessed with hanging onto their dear lives for nothing (like us). Viruses are the perfect combination of quantity and quality, and maybe that’s why they are what they are, terrible. They are in huge numbers, and their guile is better than even human beings. They are the evil twins of the human species, and use every quality that we so carefully treasure against us, they are the ideal villains from heroic stories, and their powers need to be respected first then fought against. Think of what would happen to the human race if ants became as intelligent as us? We would be extinct by now I think. We as human beings are surviving in this world purely on account of our robustness and large size. We take immense pride in smashing an ant beneath our feet, exerting our supremacy, and think if these ants were to have some power to inflict disease on us even in their death and then think of where we would be. And, that is exactly what viruses do! So what if we kill some of them, a million are waiting to kill us in revenge, and very potently, I must say.
Human beings with all their size and brains and huge tools of mass destruction are slaves to the whims of these tiny non-living entities. Viruses are intelligent, in a way that no psychologist can explain, and yet a biologist may only try to understand the various alternatives they employ to make our lives miserable. Consider the virus to be some unmanned aeroplane that the United States of America sends over Afghanistan to fish out terrorists. The consequences may be deadly either way, but the plane was only unmanned, the US will have in their hands on all the data, only to make a bigger and better attack next time. Ha! There you go, you can’t win.
Mind you, my opinions may be coloured by the work I am doing now, yet if you only look at the newspapers and periodicals on the stand, you will find how important they are, and how big a threat they pose on the human race. It may seem to me that I am turning out be an extremely opinionated virologist, but even a little child nowadays knows about the dangers of these tiny obnoxious devils. Devils, devils, I wish I had that red fork to pick these tiny monsters out of our guts.
And you think you are troubled when your PC is attacked by viruses, but you are in total oblivion about the number of viral particles currently doing the rounds in your veins! “He He,” the virus laughs, yet in such disdain that all our emotional outburst and anger towards them is rendered impotent, and we become mad and humiliated at not being able to deal with them. Don’t be upset if the complicated human mind plays tricks on you, take the simple view, and you will find logic where it seemed never to exist, however cruel it may turn out to be.
Life is cruel, and viruses are its epitome, not making matters any better for us. For, the smaller the size, greater the cruelty and the elephants are noble animals.
And it may go on and on and on, in the way that I speak, yet we all know that the PC can still run with viruses in it, albeit in a subdued manner. So we can still live our little lives with the viruses hiding somewhere in our genes. “Don’t look back in anger”, said Oasis in one of their songs, but what they didn’t say was, “At what? Viruses? Look at the AIDS patients!” “Ha!” I say, “Sorrow, it brings sorrow to think of such things.” Yet we must live and work and carry on doing whatever we are doing, like old fellow Doyle (in one of his Sherlock Holmes stories) said, “Work is the best antidote to sorrow…”
Dwaipayan Adhya
I can feel a certain unease in my thoughts, and also in the foreboding of more boring days to come. The quality of nervous spikes that are keeping me from dozing off is diminishing, and I am dozing off, slowly. Slow, yes that’s the word that suits the moment. Things are very slow and there is that hint of monotony creeping up already. Desperation, it is rising in my soul, to break into something more livelily and be alive in some way.
The food! That must be the reason! The food is excellent for making our tummies burst like stuffed up crap bags. The North Indian style of vegetarian fare is not an encouraging feeling for someone growing on fish and meat protein from the coast. I feel afraid when I think about all the unhealthy carbohydrates accumulating in my brain making it do Goo Goo Gaa Gaa instead of Rock Music.
So I think, while I am doing something about combating viruses, i.e., helping fellow human beings to rid themselves of these terrible felons, I must say, I have become intrigued by their simplicity, yet adaptability. Never have there been organisms which have been so fit to live yet so simple in composition, yet so not obsessed with hanging onto their dear lives for nothing (like us). Viruses are the perfect combination of quantity and quality, and maybe that’s why they are what they are, terrible. They are in huge numbers, and their guile is better than even human beings. They are the evil twins of the human species, and use every quality that we so carefully treasure against us, they are the ideal villains from heroic stories, and their powers need to be respected first then fought against. Think of what would happen to the human race if ants became as intelligent as us? We would be extinct by now I think. We as human beings are surviving in this world purely on account of our robustness and large size. We take immense pride in smashing an ant beneath our feet, exerting our supremacy, and think if these ants were to have some power to inflict disease on us even in their death and then think of where we would be. And, that is exactly what viruses do! So what if we kill some of them, a million are waiting to kill us in revenge, and very potently, I must say.
Human beings with all their size and brains and huge tools of mass destruction are slaves to the whims of these tiny non-living entities. Viruses are intelligent, in a way that no psychologist can explain, and yet a biologist may only try to understand the various alternatives they employ to make our lives miserable. Consider the virus to be some unmanned aeroplane that the United States of America sends over Afghanistan to fish out terrorists. The consequences may be deadly either way, but the plane was only unmanned, the US will have in their hands on all the data, only to make a bigger and better attack next time. Ha! There you go, you can’t win.
Mind you, my opinions may be coloured by the work I am doing now, yet if you only look at the newspapers and periodicals on the stand, you will find how important they are, and how big a threat they pose on the human race. It may seem to me that I am turning out be an extremely opinionated virologist, but even a little child nowadays knows about the dangers of these tiny obnoxious devils. Devils, devils, I wish I had that red fork to pick these tiny monsters out of our guts.
And you think you are troubled when your PC is attacked by viruses, but you are in total oblivion about the number of viral particles currently doing the rounds in your veins! “He He,” the virus laughs, yet in such disdain that all our emotional outburst and anger towards them is rendered impotent, and we become mad and humiliated at not being able to deal with them. Don’t be upset if the complicated human mind plays tricks on you, take the simple view, and you will find logic where it seemed never to exist, however cruel it may turn out to be.
Life is cruel, and viruses are its epitome, not making matters any better for us. For, the smaller the size, greater the cruelty and the elephants are noble animals.
And it may go on and on and on, in the way that I speak, yet we all know that the PC can still run with viruses in it, albeit in a subdued manner. So we can still live our little lives with the viruses hiding somewhere in our genes. “Don’t look back in anger”, said Oasis in one of their songs, but what they didn’t say was, “At what? Viruses? Look at the AIDS patients!” “Ha!” I say, “Sorrow, it brings sorrow to think of such things.” Yet we must live and work and carry on doing whatever we are doing, like old fellow Doyle (in one of his Sherlock Holmes stories) said, “Work is the best antidote to sorrow…”
Dwaipayan Adhya
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