Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous

by Manu Joseph

the serious often try to be amusing when they perform to an audience. That is why the world looks so awkward.

histories unreliable, all philosophies ambiguous, almost nothing is fully known or understood; can an honest mind ever be articulate?

He still has faith in everything that first led him to nationalism. But then faith is a form of fatigue. The tired body calling an end to ceaseless doubt, the body preserving itself through the myth of absolute certainty, isn’t that what faith is in its very core?

The world is filled with people who wish to impress when they speak. It is not a bad idea at all but there are advantages in being underestimated. That, too, is the art of conversation.