Extracts from the soon to be published mammoth book by Captain Nemo : "LET THERE BE LIGHTs, camera, action..."
Editor's notes:
1st Editor's Note : Having been given the enormous responsibility to make sense out of a mountain of material written by our dear dead friend "Captain Nemo", I will attempt to stay as close to his spirit when encountered with ambiguity. Some of the stuff written here just seems to be a figment of Nemo's imagination, a hallucinogen induced fantasy. But having known Nemo since childhood, I will credit that there might be some truth, a lot of heresay and blasphemy and finally some delusions of grandeur.
2nd Editor's Note : Knowing Nemo as I do since childhood and being privy to some of Nemo's innermost secrets and thought patterns I am confident that most of what is written here is true. There will be some exaggerations as in any work of creativity, hallucinogen induced or otherwise, but that cannot be considered as propogating falsehood. To regard this book as entirely fictitious and fantastic just because Nemo has written this book in first person narrative, will be akin to putting Nemo and McLean or Bagely on the same pedestal. I think Nemo deserves better.
Both editors and the publisher write a note about the style of Nemo's writing :
To quote one of Nemo's favourites - But you must know that we are all in agreement, whatever we say [ Turba Philosophorum ]
Nemo is inspired by a lot of writers whom he read avidly throughout his life; during his childhood days at Sheshadri Iyer Memorial Hall and the City Central libraries to his adoloscence at National High School and the slow graduation to adulthood in National College. He imitates too many authors to be named individually, but a true initiate will immediately recognise Umberto Eco or Bhagavad Gita or Kipling or Quran in some line and Anderson or Dylan in another. We hope that people, especially writers writing thousand page tearjerkers, will not accuse him of plagiarism and sue him.
We hope the readers will enjoy reading this book, if not for literary merit then for the sheer pleasure of nit picking or figuring out which Anderson or Dylan has been imitated and where... and maybe someday write another book as a rejoinder pointing out factual / grammatical errors, a kind of errata so to speak.
We are sure such a thing would bring some joy and solace to Nemo...
Dedication :
Dedicated to our wives for all the torture they bore endlessly while we toiled with this illegible manuscript for free. And also to the publisher for underwriting this mammoth with no expectation of a return whatsoever... We hope that when his time of reckoning comes, the correct amount spent on this will be credited in his charity a/c
Editor's notes:
1st Editor's Note : Having been given the enormous responsibility to make sense out of a mountain of material written by our dear dead friend "Captain Nemo", I will attempt to stay as close to his spirit when encountered with ambiguity. Some of the stuff written here just seems to be a figment of Nemo's imagination, a hallucinogen induced fantasy. But having known Nemo since childhood, I will credit that there might be some truth, a lot of heresay and blasphemy and finally some delusions of grandeur.
2nd Editor's Note : Knowing Nemo as I do since childhood and being privy to some of Nemo's innermost secrets and thought patterns I am confident that most of what is written here is true. There will be some exaggerations as in any work of creativity, hallucinogen induced or otherwise, but that cannot be considered as propogating falsehood. To regard this book as entirely fictitious and fantastic just because Nemo has written this book in first person narrative, will be akin to putting Nemo and McLean or Bagely on the same pedestal. I think Nemo deserves better.
Both editors and the publisher write a note about the style of Nemo's writing :
To quote one of Nemo's favourites - But you must know that we are all in agreement, whatever we say [ Turba Philosophorum ]
Nemo is inspired by a lot of writers whom he read avidly throughout his life; during his childhood days at Sheshadri Iyer Memorial Hall and the City Central libraries to his adoloscence at National High School and the slow graduation to adulthood in National College. He imitates too many authors to be named individually, but a true initiate will immediately recognise Umberto Eco or Bhagavad Gita or Kipling or Quran in some line and Anderson or Dylan in another. We hope that people, especially writers writing thousand page tearjerkers, will not accuse him of plagiarism and sue him.
We hope the readers will enjoy reading this book, if not for literary merit then for the sheer pleasure of nit picking or figuring out which Anderson or Dylan has been imitated and where... and maybe someday write another book as a rejoinder pointing out factual / grammatical errors, a kind of errata so to speak.
We are sure such a thing would bring some joy and solace to Nemo...
Dedication :
Dedicated to our wives for all the torture they bore endlessly while we toiled with this illegible manuscript for free. And also to the publisher for underwriting this mammoth with no expectation of a return whatsoever... We hope that when his time of reckoning comes, the correct amount spent on this will be credited in his charity a/c
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