Time Zone One:
He had been told that he had attained all knowledge that day. He saw a thick volume on his father’s table. ‘I can now read like you’ he said to his father and demanded that the book be handed over to him. When he had the book in his hand, he opened a well worn-out page and started to read, ‘Tee O Bee Yee O Arr Enn O Tee Tee O Bee Yee’. His father left him standing on the top of the table reading away at the top of his voice. The kid was pleased as he glowed with omniscience with the Complete Works of William Shakespeare in hand.
The Mission Control was in a state of excitement. All eyes were on the huge television monitor. ‘This one small step is the mightiest leap for the humankind and we’ve done it. We’ve broken the last frontier’ said a woman, as she appeared to be just strolling in casual clothes. She was the first human to reach another galaxy and she was wearing transparent, latest model cosmowear.
Time Zone Three:
They were just eating what it takes, for the body. They took their bath in the river and walked by its banks. They sat long hours closing their eyes. As years went on, their facial creases disappeared. Then their faces began to flower. Soon petals dropped and fruit began to appear. They could just say ‘Ha Ooo Ha’ before the fruits burst and fell into the river.
The eternal charged river keeps beckoning the bored, tired or soon to be so, scholars and astronauts.
Swami Sampurnananda, Genre 273, No. 44, Lalgarh Kuthia, 21 Feb 2004, 7.16 p.m.
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