The first time I was tagged, I was no where near any books, so I thought I could sneak away quietly. But the second time I was tapped, I realized there was no escaping karma, so here ’tis.
The rules of the meme:
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.
This passage comes to us courtesy of Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games, nearly 1000 pages of film noir that’s been kicked down a Bollywood alley. Good stuff.
“‘Gaitonde,’ he said, ‘they are bajaoing your baja, you better run away and hide, you’ll get finished.’ After our thirteenth death, three of my boys just didn’t appear for morning attendence the next day. I knew they hadn’t been killed, but that they had just walked away from a losing game.”
I believe I’ve lunched with some performing arts professionals who sport pretty much the same outlook.
I send the iChain along to The Husband, The Professor, The Journalist, The Ethnomusicologist (who swears he wants to play in the mud of new music with us), and The Man Who Introduced Me To My Life. Play ball.
Duly noted and responded to.