Jul 14, 2010 10:19 AM
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The book is like a sub-prime customer that every bank must look to avoid, failing which there is a toxic asset weighing down upon the balance sheet, something that you just cannot flush out of the system as much as you try.
Once the rating agencies( friends, family and peer group) who historically rated your intellect a AAA( they did this because you read Dostoyevsky, Hesse, TheClassics and the like)catch wind of your dalliance, they will automatically downgrade the rating ofyour intellect, will ostracize you and leave you to wallow in the aftermath that indulgences like these can wreak upon you
You may end up seeking external help via bailouts that may include visits to the shrink, a dip in the ganges or the closest bar. However the bad news is all of this will not help.
And now that the general sentiment is against you and your efforts toredeem yourselfhave not come to fruition, you will most likely crash. This point on there is no coming back and much like I did, you probably will now be on a steady diet of Chetan Bhagat and Shobha De, along with some third rate films from the Dharma Productions stable.