Dear L, I find depth to be a weird idea, given it’s so subjective and divisive. For someone like me, “The Big Lebowski” is a film about a brilliant characters being incredibly content with where he is. The Hollywood flick “Constantine”, for me is a character study of a…
“A meal eaten alone and in silence is no pleasure. So I fell into the habit of reading while I ate. In that way I can lose myself completely for a time. The days I don’t read I feel like a barbarian brooding over a chunk of meat” -…
I wasn’t sure where I was. It was almost as if I woke up from a dream. I remember leaving the house for a walk, and then it was blank. The disorientation was mildly alarming. I was standing on one among numerous bridges of the city, looking out onto…
“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.” - Roy Batty [https:…
Dear L, A brilliant man once told me about Umeshisms, named after Dr. Umesh Vazirani. Dr. Vazirani [https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/] is a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley. He used to pack entire philosophy of life in little nuggets. Among those, one of my favourite one…