SRIJAN 2002-2003(1st Edition)

CONTOURS OF THE MIND/Green Valleys
By:
Souvik Kumar Chakravarty,
First year,
Electronics And Communication Engineering.
As the blue horizons blur beyond the expanse of the universe,
And knowledge becomes a renegade,
The redundant bird of humanity merges into the bounds of green materialism,
Leaving the world to grapple with the whiz of abstract protoplasm.
The fetid fete-champetre of cut throat competition encompasses the mind and spirit,
Obscuring ethics and morality into the deepest bosoms of an engulfing darkness;
And the mythical love chars itself in the flames of obsession and passion,
Only to redeem its existence at the flair of bards concocting tales of love terminating at the trunnions.
As progress synergizes at the cost of human emotions,
Man trudges along a blistering desert of greed sans end
In an endeavour to seek the mirage of attainment,
That skews off into attrition with the murky smog of divine enlightenment.
And thus the Phoenix of Apocalypse spreads its wings,
To generate a vortex that draws into its curls all the stigmatized glitterati;
The wheel of history trespasses into another sojourn of Noah.
Omega! Omega! Omega!
today is characterized by raw materialism that sets the stage for the fmal doomsday conflict. Prophecy is
Tube Thought: The world
what I call it; cynicism is what you may think it to be.
THE UNKNOWN ORIGINS OF SOME COMMON EXPRESSIONS:
BLUE BLOOD: This strange term for noble birth or aristocratic descent is
a direct translation of the Spanish 'saugre azue'. In Spain, a pale complexion
used to be considered a sign of pure breeding and tended to be associated with
aristocratic families. Hence the idea of 'blue blood' developed as a hallmark of
the nobility.
@OM-03
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.