He put a cigarette in his mouth and, as a matter of silent routine, offered one to Gwyn, who said ‘No thanks.”Richard looked at him.”I packed it in.”"You what?”"I stopped. Three days ago. Cold. That’s it. You just make the life choice.”
Richard looked up and inhaled needfully. He gazed at his cigarette. He didn’t really want to smoke it. He wanted to eat it. Almost the only thing that he still liked about Gwyn was that he still smoked…Paradoxically, he no longer wanted to give up smoking: what he wanted to do was take up smoking. Not so much to fill the little gaps between cigarettes with cigarettes (there wouldn’t be time, anyway) or to smoke two cigarettes at once. It was more that he felt the desire to smoke a cigarette even when he was smoking a cigarette. The need was and wasn’t being met…
While it would always be true and fair to say that Richard felt like a cigarette, it would now be doubly true and fair to say it. He felt like a cigarette. And he felt like a cigaret…
Indeed, a very sweet memory of 80s!
ReplyDeleteWhen you see such snippets, you realize that even as TV Industry has expanded exponentially and has acquired technological strength, it has lost the charm of 80s /90s on the way somewhere.
I've spent the last hour watching Mr Yogi and Yeh Jo Hain zindagi thanks to you. I'm supposed to be working!
ReplyDeleteSo you too think I should put up a sign warning people that this blog will eat into your productive time :)
ReplyDeleteRadha seth was quite sweet and charming actress of doordarshan that time.I was watching gul gulshan gulfam and katha sagar on youtube.than I came to knoow abt Radha seth I really like her.Just curious to know where is she these days.
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