Thursday, August 21, 2025

Quote from Aristotle via a friend--

Yes, it's true. Thank you.
I certainly can't abide some journalists as they call themselves--and some historians too embedded in the particular--and the trees--not seeing the forest.
Aristotle was the tutor of Alexander the Great and all his friends who became his top comrades.
Bit different from M.Junta ha!??
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
—Aristotle, "Poetics"

Invitation to eavesdrop on my "beautiful mind." This story Beast won a prize at the Himal Southasia Inaugural Fiction Fest in 2023.

Big thank you to everyone at Himal, especially Chief Editor Roman Gautam and Marlon Ariyasinghe who did all the liaison, and introduced me o...