"Ayyo, you don't know. I totally urugified. Not because of the heat. His craning neck and dancing eyebrows meltigrated me to a rippling puddle."
"Again?! Onakku eppovume ithe thana di pozhappu?"
"Arrey no di, when I get my head out of the clouds and put my feet on the ground, I am sane enough to realize we are miles apart. Literally and figuratively. Enakkum avanukkum sammanthame illa. He is nattaikurinji. I am naatu sarakku. He spends his life quoting Wodehouse and Woody Allen. And I spend my life trying to come up with wisecracks of my own. He is sangeetha methai, I am gyaanasooniyam. Engayaavathu othu poguma? Plus he is the really artsy fartsy type di. Writing novellas enna, taking photographs enna"
"So what di? If he is classical symphony, you are steel drums."
"But what if, one of these days, he plays me some raagam, special; signifying love or romance or something? I wouldn't even know. It would be totally wasted on me. His knowledge, his genius.. I won't even be able to appreciate it"
"Appreciate it, you will.. you only won't recogonize it. That is his problem. Avanukku venumna let him teach you. Plus sangeetha gyaanam and all is phooey. "Isaiya anubavikkanum, aaraya koodaathu". You only say, no?"
"Seri, leave that. Still, there is the question of the years, the distance. Plus I'm already busy with work di. There's so much I have to do, I won't even have time for this now, and with passing time, it will fade away... I don't know di. I think I will sober up, get real, and leave this all behind, along with the clothes and the jewellery; with the others hoping that I will come back for them one day."
"Yes di. Don't bring along excess baggage, you end up paying a heavy price for it"
"Kindalukku korachale illa! ... In the end, I am going to become one of those old ladies with the cats, you just wait and watch"
"What rubbish di! Enakkoru vodka maari onakkoru wine cooler maata maattaana?"
"Ei po di. I was looking for Allepy toddy, and you're giving me alpam wine cooler"
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