Long, long time ago, okay not so long ago, there was a peasant girl called Nerdorina. I call her a peasant because she says she is one, well she calls herself a working class/ proletariat person. That is far from the truth she is a proletariat with a lot of bourgeois habits and she openly admits to her being so... but Nerdorina the peasant has been and still is a princess to many people, but that is a different story and will not be mentioned here, not because i respect her privacy but its too messy to get into.
Coming back to our story, Nerdorina and Princess Sarcastica(irony that she is nobody's princess and the peasant girl is..) went to a modern day tavern - where the rivers of liquid gold flow freely and fearlessly, distorting the minds of many just like the smoke that hangs around like fog in the morning in winter. Why did two pretty damsels go to the tavern all alone? Well they had many motives - Nerdorina had to get permission from the owner, to shoot a film for her research project. So it is strictly business she said - then one could see the unmistakable spark in her four eyes two of which were red and black. Nerdorina had her reasons - a reason who plays track after track, every night at the tavern. The reason also had a trishul piercing, ( Sarcastica : am sure he is in league with some hindutva faction! Nerdorina : hmpf!) and hence her reason was christened TP- wala( TP = trishul piercing).
Sarcastica was worried that people might think her and nerdorina were a lesbian couple because they had frequented the bar before and it was just the two of them.Nerdorina didn't care she had the hots for TP- wala. Sarcastica was really bored and hadn't had the drink, that many called her birth right, for ages now. So she just went along for the fun or as she said let the good times roll!She could always make fun of Nerdorina (yup! Sarcastica is the mean one) and beer is not alcoholic (hence her excuse) so a few glasses wouldn't hurt!Six thirty, on a very rainy day and they are glad to be underground in a near empty PUB- they get a good table but princess Sarcastica doesn't want to sit anywhere near the MAN UTD banner. Nerdorina sits near it anyway and princess grumbles- throws a near tantrum but shut ups when she is promised beer.
The drinks snacks are ordered and Nerdorina wonders if she should go talk to the owner, she decides to wait a while- I'll go after a smoke and a few sips of beer she says.With a little alcohol in their systems they start with their insane, seemingly pointless discussions that could be marked as pseudo- intellectual and dumb at the same time(to be noted that its not the alcohol, that makes them talk like they do- its the same when they are sober). Nerdorina having had a few sips of beer - guided by her urge to smoke rummages through her bag for smokes and matches. She finds her smokes easily enough - sarcastica would be worried if she didn't find them ( nerdorina gets real nasty and cranky without her smokes and sarcastica can't handle her then). Nerdorina's face morphs and she continues frantically digging up the contents of her bag - and out on the table is a RUSHDIE novel! "Where the fuck is my lighter?" she screams in sheer desperation. A waiter jumps to the rescue of our damsel in distress- he offers her a light and all is well or so it seemed. Sarcastica saw the RUSHDIE novel and was dying to start with her snide, cheeky remarks and was shutting up because she didn't want to piss off Nerdorina when she was not functioning like a chimney spewing out smoke.
Sarcastica : novel huh?
nerdorina : yeah thought I'd get to read a bit if i got bored.
S: wow! you can actually read novels in pub, they are so well lit up and not too different from libraries! Right on sister! The loud music and noise - excellent ambience to read for sure!
n: I knew I’d get bored with YOU!!!
S: NERD! Hmpf!
(Silence, well if u don't count the classic rock in the background and over thirty people yelling all around them, both of them gulp down beer to drown out the relative silence at their table)
Right now its very essential to mention that Nerdorina and Sarcastica share a love- hate relationship- they make take each others cases but at the end of the day things work out so them. So Sarcastica starts babling along again (yeah she just can't shut up- she can go on and on and on)"hey guess what am checking out your TP - wala" she said mockingly, but it was HIM that they were talking about to nerdorina cheered up and said tell me more... so sarcastic obliged n described his every move on the bar stool and at the end when he went out of sight she remarked " hmm, not bad, really not bad, he is kinda cute". Nerdorina dreamily lost in some parallel universe says “oh! Yes he is.. " Sarcastica shook her out of reverie by saying " You know a guy like that wont be on the market for long, am sure he has a girlfriend or is gay or something".
More angry looks are thrown around there is another spell of silence.Some 20-20 world cup match was going on and hence started their next discussion
Sarcatica : is cricket bourgeois or proletariat?
Nerdorina : that will depend on many things like say the country... interesting question...
S : (trying to look at her reflection in the beer) do you suppose its the same with beer? i mean is it bourgeois? Everything changes when we talk about India....And a long insane conversation followed where the world was divided into bourgeois and proletariat etc.)
The end!
The end!
33 comments:
haha..well written and funny..i cud actually relate to it, perhaps its becoz of d little headline u gave me abt d issue...but its funny as hell..keep d story flowing :D.
ha ha ha ha!!!!
well am impatiently awaiting for the next episode! its hillarious... of course am sure all similarity with events and/or persons dead or alive is purely coincidental!
hmmmm peasant girl, with bourgeois habits!too much!
i like the way u describe the tavern and the liquid that flows etc. well done!
cant wait for the next one! its good, its good... keep it flowing!
wohoooooooo! keep it rolling baby! i lowe it! thats good stuff!
cant wait for the persian rats to exterminate :D!!
hehe..gud characterisations..felt like i've almost met them..:) though i think princess's portrayal is a little more sympathetic than it should be..no?
therez more to come... so wait 4 that and bout being sympathetic towards the princess hmmm well this piece is called legend of nerdorina.. so she gets the royal treatment :P this time arnd... its all bout nerdorina this time whoever she is.... :P :P :P
hey the sleeping beauty ;) will be mentioned too renu... jus u wait :P
nice...
wel written,i must say(even if i don wan2). n yes, gud u didn get into the 'princess mess'. as i'v alwez said,u r pretty intelligent.
n yes she's not a peasant girl wid BOURGEOIS habit. she merely has communist concerns,which she'l be translating into actions shortly!
she's a sensitive human being,k!
apart from that a really wel written peice!
waiting 4 the update.
proletariat and bourgeoissious(however you spell that).. big words.. i could relate to it if i was high on acid and jagermeister... which is not a bad thing at all. nice!
@ palla : any idea who nerdorina is? well i think you know her very well, considering that you know bout her so called communist tendencies and woman y r u defending nerdorina? shes pure fiction :P
@ art : I can't spell words like bourgeois without spell check. wish i could use spellcheck in exams too! have mispelled bourgeois and other simpler words in my papers.
@Adi.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ;)
*giggles* :P
;)
if ur post wasn't as good as it was i'd complain of it being so long...
in other words...Flo likes
m tired of bourgeois and proletrait talks. it's such a horrid arguement. no1 really likes to see t otr's point of view either :\
hey nice blog!! kewl i like ur fable..do read mine
at www.artymystic.blogspot.com
love
arty aka mystic
by any chance ur a bong?:o
oh so u approve comments!
ahan! interesting!
bong? me? rofl... u must be freaking kidding me :P
am a south indian konkani or as they call it amchi girl :P
damn cant believe i just said tht!!!
but i dont fit tht stereotype!
btw i dont censor my comments.. no one writes nethng controversial :'( :P
proletariat, peasant, bourgeois
only bong species seems to care bout them! I thought so! :)
U want me to write something controversial?
nerdorina is a bong...
and we english literature students do talk bout this a lot u know, its all psuedo- intellectual talk :P
pls go ahead and say something controversial... i thrive on scandal and drama :P
I did my eco honours from Delhi University last year!(the toughest course to 'get into' n 'come out' of in India :p )
well lets not go bout psuedo- intellectual talks :P
and dont get shocked man!
I being a punjabi jat always do get asked "r u a bong" n when I say no they are pretty shocked :|
he he i do hang arnd a lot of bongs i so am scared of catching a bong virus :P
and i`ve been called bong before.. punjabi yeah they think am punjabi till i say a wrd in hindi :P
eco honors from DU wow! and i know bout the crowd tht ur talking bout :P
i know, me tooo... almost all my good friends are bongs! n i think thats the deal! its the bong virus!
am sorry i have hurt you in anyway :P(it doesnt feel good, I know , I know :O )
hehe..nicely written. thought i think i should tell you that, beer is, sadly, alcoholic.:) and 'Sarcastica'??! very interesting!
hey thanks for commenting, missed your comment...
just saw it now
oh well beer and wine are included in the list of drinkable drinks! :P
and sarcastica is not original... borrowed the name from someone else!
So apparently,you've taken up a paper on Karl Marx in the recent past.
P.S: I think I'm falling in love with Sarcastica.
I find her pleasantly..invigorating.
Guess who Sarcastica is? :P ( this retarded emoticon is usually used to state that a particular comment was made to mock the other person)
what do you mean apparently?!
I've not taken up a paper on Karl Marx... I could not read the Das Kapital! I did some secondary reading on Marx for it was essential for my literary theory paper!
So, :P is that tongue-sticking-out thing?
And I'm guessing Sarcastica is this sizzling combination of Athena And Aphrodite. (There,I TOLD you the 17-ness was'nt too far away!)
'Apparently',because you use proletariat and bourgeois (even if in a humorous context) a lot,like somebody who'd just come across those words,which seemed to suggest that you'd just taken up Karl Marx.
Sarcastica was based on me, so thank you so much for the compliment! :D
And,Yes, you may throw up now!
well you should drop by the university some day. we are the heights of pseudo- intellectualism if that if not already apparent by the whole piece!
the words bourgeoisie and proletariat were used to mock Nedorina's communist/socialist tendencies. She's read the Das Kapital and she does use Marxist terminology :P
So,people lose their modesty by the time they turn 22?
Sad,Really.
Although,I SUPPOSE the modesty was not entirely baseless in this case.(THIS is a compliment,FYI).
Yeah,but I kind of got the impression you were mocking Pseudo-Intellectualism in itself with the class references,that's what made me go rofl when I read the piece.
lack of modesty,I mean.
lol!
i like sarcastica...
Sarcastica thanks you! :)
oh well this was Sarcastica's version , i bet nerdorina would have a different version of it :P
too bad she dsnt blog! :P
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