A new series in the offing !!

Prelude ::: Quoting myself in a posting made couple of days back.....for better clarity
"Kallikkaatu Idhihaasam
I spent close to 2 hours in this 24 hours re-reading one of the master pieces of Vairamuthu...the writer-turned poet....This novel exploded on me and I was wondering how enriched and clear this person's mind is.....
.....I thought I will at least write a detailed commentary on this novel...with accurate translations for few poetic descriptions.....with my maximum vocabulary.....describing the speciality of the novel to a non-reader or some one who does not know him....The second one is possible...if only, I place my mind on it... I have already placed my mind on it.... A commentary on a Native Ithihaasam may be in the offing before the end of 2008.....!!"

Dear Gowri
Do you remember Steven Covey's Time Quadrants - with special reference to Second Time Quadrant....? "Things which are important but not urgent"..... By pushing things that we want to do to happen "before the end of 2008", there is a great risk of the same never getting done....
As I continued the novel in the past two days, I realized that it is worth embarking on a project on this novel...I do have plans to buy "Karuvaachi Kaaviyam" but thats later....Now let me make some structured commentaries on this first master piece of Vairamuthu....
The purpose of this posting is to set the premises for the project..... The novel is close to 400 pages and it actually deserves & is capable of producing 800 pages commentary / analyses from me...Considering the fact I do have a 10 hours office & there is a risk in losing the only reader of mine in this blogsite, I intend to contain myself and attempt some thing like 8 to 10 chapters as I wrote "Walk towards the peak"....
Irrespective of whether you have read this novel or not, my mission in this connection is to give a reader a vicarious pleasure as if he had read this novel by himself.... I do have some extended goals around this base statement made....
First is that, the reader - like me - will get enriched by knowing lot about the culture and traditions of the part of land (Kallikkaadu) in which the story revolves around... I was talking to my brother recently on the magnetism about T.Janakiraman and his famous novels....He expressed a view that since we belong to his culture (Tanjore & Brahmins), we are able to relish his novels better...If only we knew carnatic music, we could have appreciated this great writer even more as T.J sprays his music expertise in most of his novels. This particular discussion was some thing that I was thinking about the past two days.... An alien culture of Tamil Nadu which is also poverty ridden is made quite familiar now to me as I read through this novel....Isn't it a contradiction to our earlier discussion and the (seemingly) conclusion that we drew upon ?? So the narrating style can inject even some thing so far unfamiliar into us deeply if they have necessary skill set.... (now I dont undermine TJ any way...that he did not "inject" music inside us....he must have had his own limits....considering that we are Gnana Shuunyams)
Secondly, being a poet basically, Vairamuthu had provided abundant situations where we can relish his power over the language. I intend to capture as much as possible in a particular posting...may be in two or three postings....He has quoted lot of local proverbs through his characters (he calls it "solvam" which by itself a local word to mean proverb..) and their dialogues & also has used few local slangs...I wish to record the subtle learnings that these aspects provide us...
Thirdly, I could see the powerful manner in which we can visualise few scenes as though we are seeing a cinema...Just an example here, the Hero's two bullocks (his pets) are taken away by money lenders..and our hero - an old man is bruding about their fate in the night time unable to sleep.....He gets a jolt to hear their familiar voices outside his home and rushes to see them...Let me translate the exact words as how our hero sees his bullocks which had escaped from the ruffians and had reached back faithfully to their affectionate master.... "One bull (MayilakkaaLai) is found with torn off the rope to which it was tied....while the other one (sevalakkaaLai) had pulled out the base-stick in which its rope was tied up...Both of them looked as if they told him ..."yes, sir, we have come"
{Now I realise that to do a better job of his translation, I should improvise more but....I dont want to stop this project for any excuses...how ever genuine it is...By the by, the intention is not to make a scholarly translation but to spray how I felt when I read the novel}
Now the beauty of aforesaid piece is that, the narrator could have chosen to be superficial in his description...but when I read this line in Tamil, I actually saw the scene with two bulls using their respective strength and will power to release themselves from the tied up ropes...!!
Fourthly, the humour sense that Vairamuth has within himself, has nicely come up in the novel...and I want to group them and show them as one posting.... Some of it is can be visualised though we dont belong to his culture.....
Fifthly, I would like to present the micro level characterisations and the techniques used by Vairamuthu to help us to visualise his various characters of the novel....Honestly, I have some surprise why no one attempted to make a film out of this story.....it got released in 2001 as it has tremendous scope for making a good movie when we have half a dozen Tamil Fanatics calling themselves close to native Tamil Nadu.. Perhaps they may have struggle in deciding upon how to infuse sex and vulgarity in this wonderful novel where even a mating scene is narrated with a powerful visualisation possibility.... !! Let me reserve this for the main series ....
Last but not the least, I will be starting up the whole series only after narrating the whole of the story - in condensed form.... so that the reader (I mean, the reader of my series) can really settle down for the next question in his mind....WHY this novel is special....We need to make the WHAT clear, first right ?? So the first posting is about a brief intro on the preface written by Vairamuthu & also the mainline story ....
Now, coming back to the Title of this posting, I am beginning to understand that there is too much scope in every thing around us....whether we read a novel or enjoy a morning walk or we decide to do nothing.... !! I only wish and pray Almighty that I dont cool off for the next one month...so that this series.....will become a reality...Like all my other musings, this too is mainly written to satisfy my expression syndrome and I can helplessly observe a big longing getting more and more intense to get out of this spree of expression...
With my active involvement in this blog and my venting off, I can experience stillness during most part of the day when there is no need to talk BUT when I start interacting, I can see that the apetite to express takes over which some times enervate me complete... I wish to become a master communicator capable of speaking just adequate...!! Moderation is a way of life...right ?? OR as Gowri nicely puts it,...... "averaging out" may appear quite normal when we dont have much of standard deviation.....!!
Regards
suchoo