Dear reader,
I am writing this from the comfort of my home, having returned from a shortish journey made to a small town due to personal reasons. The weather is rather gloomy and this Sunday promises to be one of those typical post-travel days spent in cleaning the grime a house accumulates in the absence of its inhabitants. Absences bring to mind the following lines from Dom Moraes’s poem titled ‘Absences’. I couldn’t help but share this with you -
No sound would be heard if So much silence was not heard. Clouds scuff like sheep on the cliff. The echoes of stones are restored. No longer any foreshore Or any abyss, this World only held together By its variety of absences.
Source and link to full poem - Absences
I’ll leave you with this poem and with links to some other pieces of literature, music, and art that might add a bit more colour to your Sunday. Please subscribe if you haven’t.
What we published
On literature: we published this long-form essay last year in September. Re-sharing it for subscribers who joined us after that. We have added voiceover of the essay in case you prefer listening to it instead of reading. Here is the link -
On music: we published this essay about a playlist
had created called ‘Tranquility’. He wrote about the common thread that runs through each song of the playlist. Here is the link to the essay.Art: The white dress by Nupur Lele
Van Gogh series - 04
Inspiration photo
- Girl in White, Vincent van Gogh, Auvers-sur-Oise, (1890)
What we found
Article: One of the leading writers on literature (Sumana Roy) writes about the author she admires (Amit Chaudhuri). Here’s the link -
The Deeply Unserious, Important Work of Amit Chaudhuri
Listen you must to…: the Tranquility playlist created by
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