Saturday, December 23, 2006

Dystopian themes.....


I somehow have a great liking for Dystopian themes......I like it better than any mystery/detective stuff as this whole chaos in the future thing is strangely spine-chilling.The dark 'what-can-be' side of the future gives the author a canvass which he can enliven with any shade of gray and gives us a perspective of what can be wrong with the present world...My favorites being V for vendetta
,Ayn Rand's Anthem and Issac Asimov's The Foundation series though the last one cannot be called strictly dystopian.I am not a great fan of Ayn Rand's Objectivism shit but I like Anthem for its non-pretentious, threadbare story-line.I read The Foundation Series when i was a kid and was spell-bound by the wondrous theme of a galactic empire and its collapse...I also remember reading a story back in school in my CBSE English textbook about a time-travel back into the past for a strange kind of Dinosaur Safari and how these bunch of hunters end up trampling a innocuous butterfly which causes a Domino's effect through time causing a very drastic change in the present...... and oh.. I so want to read George Orwell's 1984 but somehow have never managed to lay my hands on it.


P.S :Its 2 in the night and i have no idea why I am doing this...I have got exams 5 days from now and really should be getting back to my books...the rest of the day being spent in watching Southpark on you-tube and Will &Grace on DVD.....god bless all of us toiling away under the tyranny of VTU exams.Best of luck to everyone.

4 comments:

Animall said...

well, I have been going through all your blogs all these days and this one just spoke my mind with articulated precision. And, you must read 1984 as it is a gem of a book. It is 1:40 by my watch and I too have no clue of why I am scribbling these notes to you... maybe because once upon a time, we used to share our thoughts in front of my house after school-hours without giving a care about time... old habbits are not easy to part with... all the best and belated merry christmas...

Deepika said...

You are the first impressively articulate male I have come across..ot so it shows, from your blog. WHO are you?? Don't worry, Im not a psychopathic hound-er, just another 21 year old from mumbai with feelings very much like yours, and an equally great passion for reading too.

Deepika said...

You ROCK gammafunction!!! Yes you do!!! Is this believable or WHAT??? I thought all the bloody 21 yr old guys ill ever come across are those who spend half of their time on orkut, the other half guzzling booze down their throats in shady pubs and discs..but you are IMPRESSIVE, to say the least. Do reply back.

Gammafunction said...

@Anindya:well will someone plz lend me 1984!...and hey I am just a phone call away all the time.....its strange that we have talked less in these 3 and a half years than before...


@Deepika:Thank you!! ...I am just a guy doing my final year engg. in Bangalore..I see you are a friend of Ankita...you have an impressive blog too...keep it up and your comments are always welcome :-)

I am Jack's indecisiveness wrapped in a sheath of fatalistic tendencies