And the list went on. We used to listen to the Beatles all the time and try deciphering the meaning in their lyrics and relate that to our lives. I read Edgar Allan Poe’s collections and was simply amazed by the way he’d handle the reader- getting into too much reality and slowly and consciously drawing them into fancied fantasy. He would bridge the gap between reality and fiction so well that the reader would be mesmerized by it and bedazzled into believing anything he says. I was in fact affected by him so much that my usual language and vocabulary became somewhat novelistic.
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I read a few excerpts from Sulman Rushdi. His way of forming long meaningful, yet hard to understand, sentences in English and his unique-for-him style of connecting many words into one complex word full of hyphens, which when read continuously would give you the sense of knowing English and nothing more, but finally after deciphering the meaning of it, would startle you and make you think of his genius faculty inspired me so much that it got reflected in many of my speeches and sentences (wow, some influence, huh?!)
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