Monday, November 06, 2006

Traffic Blues and Imagination!



Long are the hours spent on Sheikh Zayed Road (SZR), that I am seeing things! Must be the long tiresome wait in the unending traffic to and fro work. It is a good thing I am not driving and just sitting in the passenger seat.


This building on SZR for some reason reminds me of Barad-dûr, the fortress tower of Sauron, in the Lord of the Rings (LOTR) movie. Is it my eyes or was the architect an inspired LOTR fan? Or else it's my late night movie sessions on One Channel and MBC 2.


"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." ~ Carl Sagan, US astronomer.


The mind is such marvelous get away. I guess that's all there is to do for people from Dubai, Sharjah and Ajman, who according to yesterday's Gulf News are "Living out of their vehicles." About 4- 5 hours on the road each day, does give a lot of people time to think!


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632

The Brain—is wider than the Sky—
For—put them side by side—
The one the other will contain
With ease—and You—beside—

The Brain is deeper than the sea—
For—hold them—Blue to Blue—
The one the other will absorb—
As Sponges—Buckets—do—

The Brain is just the weight of God—
For—Heft them—Pound for Pound—
And they will differ—if they do—
As Syllable from Sound—

~ Emily Dickinson

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey da bldgin is probably da remixed cum back of da movie architect..wer its probably lost sum weight;P n modernized as da time is movin on...did i make sense..?lolz.

marwan said...

Got a good eye there, matey.