Gobbledygook!

My mother today dismissed my writing as gobbledygook. Gobbledygook. Yes, that was the very word she used. And quite appositely too, I thought. And she stressed on the importance of lucid writing. At which point my father also stressed on the irrepressible fact that words should merely act as the lens which clarifies the imagery of the canvas to the mind and not as a coloured glass frame which only serves to vitiate the effect of the canvas. Little could I differ from them.

But at a sub-conscious level, I only think of this phase of life as the learning phase. Which is why I have not striven to produce serious literature, novels and the like. Once the preparation and the practice is complete and I am well versed with all the uses of the tool, I will be able to brandish it more skilfully. This is precisely why I let myself go really sesquipedalian on my thoughts. I believe that once words begin to cascade like the the limpid stream, temperance is always easier. Limpid and fluid - those are the two caveats. I am just waiting for the day when my writings begin to boast of bombast, perspicuity and perspicacity! I would have learnt, to write (pun intended)!

- posted by Dileepan @ 7:42:00 am

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