During the course of the past three years of my mind-numbing blogging I have been accused and implicated of harboring:
1. Passion and 2. Humor.
I would like to firmly respond to these baseless charges one by one as their meanings occur in my online-Webster:
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Definition of PASSION
1. Webster:
a : "the sufferings of Christ between the night of the Last Supper and his death"
gps: Ok! I WAS suffering occasionally when I was crucified at IIT KGP when applying for PF loans on hilarious grounds like celebrating the impending marriages of 6 of my 'dependent' sisters a couple of dozen times in various permutations and combinations as and when I fell short of money for buying the classy products of WD & HO Wills; but that's about all the Passion I displayed at KGP. But not after retirement, for, they cleared all my PF money so I can't pester them for loans anymore.
b : Webster:
"an oratorio based on a gospel narrative of the Passion"
gps: The only oratory I indulged in at KGP was on Dirac Equation since I didn't understand it. On Maxwell Equations, I didn't have to, because I knew them like the back of my palm, having done a Ph D in this subject under SDM (about whom I am accused by Anupam of being "passionate" in my SDM Homage)
"gps lemma: The less one knows of a subject, the more eloquent one is"
gps: Ok! I WAS suffering occasionally when I was crucified at IIT KGP when applying for PF loans on hilarious grounds like celebrating the impending marriages of 6 of my 'dependent' sisters a couple of dozen times in various permutations and combinations as and when I fell short of money for buying the classy products of WD & HO Wills; but that's about all the Passion I displayed at KGP. But not after retirement, for, they cleared all my PF money so I can't pester them for loans anymore.
b : Webster:
"an oratorio based on a gospel narrative of the Passion"
gps: The only oratory I indulged in at KGP was on Dirac Equation since I didn't understand it. On Maxwell Equations, I didn't have to, because I knew them like the back of my palm, having done a Ph D in this subject under SDM (about whom I am accused by Anupam of being "passionate" in my SDM Homage)
"gps lemma: The less one knows of a subject, the more eloquent one is"
2 Webster:
"obsolete : suffering"
gps: I don't think I am obsolete enough now; maybe later (at 100) I will respond to this
gps: I don't think I am obsolete enough now; maybe later (at 100) I will respond to this
3 Webster:
"the state or capacity of being acted on by external agents or forces"
gps: Is there anyone not in the state of being acted on by external agents or forces like the wife and kids; why me alone?
gps: Is there anyone not in the state of being acted on by external agents or forces like the wife and kids; why me alone?
4 Webster:
a (1) :
"emotionpassion is greed"
gps: Hyderabadi Super-Malls wink and blink constantly with neon signs saying: 'Greed is Good! Greed is Good!! Greed is Good!!!'... Not poor me, who gives those Malls a quiet miss
(2) Webster:
"plural : the emotions as distinguished from reason"
gps: Anyone defending himself this logically and reasoningly can't be accused of emotions, plural or 'singular'
b : Webster:
"intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction"
gps: However intensely or with overmastering feeling I try to drive, my jalopy doesn't go beyond 30 kmph. And I have so far escaped 'conviction' on this ground
c : Webster:
"an outbreak of anger"
gps: Ha! Outbreak of Anger!!! In our childhood, when there were no home-toilets, we used to morning-walk to the Village Tank for our primary ablutions. The motto was: "What is the use of getting angry with the Tank; you will only stink!"
"emotion
gps:
(2) Webster:
"plural : the emotions as distinguished from reason"
gps: Anyone defending himself this logically and reasoningly can't be accused of emotions, plural or 'singular'
b : Webster:
"intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction"
gps: However intensely or with overmastering feeling I try to drive, my jalopy doesn't go beyond 30 kmph. And I have so far escaped 'conviction' on this ground
c : Webster:
"an outbreak of anger"
gps: Ha! Outbreak of Anger!!! In our childhood, when there were no home-toilets, we used to morning-walk to the Village Tank for our primary ablutions. The motto was: "What is the use of getting angry with the Tank; you will only stink!"
5 Webster:
a : "ardent affection"gps: Few can accuse me of 'ardent affection' to anyone but myself, which is so far 'unrequited'.
: Webster:
"love b : a strong liking or desire for or devotion to some activity, object, or concept"
gps: Whoever lived in the Faculty Hostel at IIT KGP for seven breezy years will surely have 'a strong liking or desire for or devotion to' decent food once in a while, Other passions pale before what our 'aalu had for gobi' (as I wrote to SPK yesterday) since we were ever served 'aalu-gobi' for lunch and 'gobi-aalu' for dinner on a regular basis in their Mess, except on special dinner nights when both of them loved a bit of 'mattar and paneer'
Webster:
c : "sexual desire"
gps: Can we keep this CLEAN please!
Webster:
d : "an object of desire or deep interest"
gps: I was hardly an object of desire or deep interest to anyone so far as I know. It is not MY problem
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Definition of HUMOR
1 Webster:
a : "a normal functioning bodily semifluid or fluid (as the blood or lymph)"
gps: I am neither 'bloody' nor 'lymphatic'; only 'emphatic'
b : Webster:
"a secretion (as a hormone) that is an excitant of activity"
gps: Again, let this be clean!
gps: I am neither 'bloody' nor 'lymphatic'; only 'emphatic'
b : Webster:
"a secretion (as a hormone) that is an excitant of activity"
gps: Again, let this be clean!
2 Webster:
a: "in medieval physiology : a fluid or juice of an animal or plant; specifically : one of the four fluids entering into the constitution of the body and determining by their relative proportions a person's health and temperament"
gps: Let medieval physiology with its fluids and juices of animals or plants go to medieval dogs! I don't care
b : Webster:
"characteristic or habitual disposition or bent : temperament
gps: I am not 'bent'; I am straight!
c : Webster:
"an often temporary state of mind imposed especially by circumstances;
gps: Everything in this world is temporary
"a sudden, unpredictable, or unreasoning inclination : whim
gps: I have been consistently sordid in my 380 blogposts so far; nothing sudden or unpredictable or unreasoning inclination: 3 long years can't be dubbed 'sudden'
3 Webster:
a : "that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous"
gps: Big words! I have to check with my online Webster in a different window
b : Webster:
"the mental faculty of discovering, expressing, or appreciating the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous"
gps: More of the above; 'mental' in Midnapore means 'gone case', which I swear I am not yet
c : Webster:
"something that is or is designed to be comical or amusing"
gps: What's wrong with THAT?
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gps: Big words! I have to check with my online Webster in a different window
b : Webster:
"the mental faculty of discovering, expressing, or appreciating the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous"
gps: More of the above; 'mental' in Midnapore means 'gone case', which I swear I am not yet
c : Webster:
"something that is or is designed to be comical or amusing"
gps: What's wrong with THAT?
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1 comment:
Anirban writes:
"gps lemma: The less one knows of a subject, the more eloquent one is:
I disagree and cite Prof. D. Basu's lectures. I have never heard
anyone convey abstract math with such panache. One may argue that
flamboyance is not necessarily eloquence, but in this case, it was."
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