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I Am That: Talks With Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Samara comes closer to me, now studying my face. Her eyes are wandering all over my facial features. I contort my face in confusion at her weird stares, "Umm, hey-" "Listen, can you wear my wedding dress and be a bride at my place?" She questions. Ec-excuse me? I give her a long stare. I think she is joking and would burst into laughter any minute...but she doesn't. Her face has no trace of humour. "What?" I quirk up my brow. "You've to be a bride at my place." She repeats with no hesitation. Cold shiver trickles through me. .... An Accidental Bride. A Mistaken Groom. A Marriage Neither Saw Coming. 18-year-old Sanaya Frances was finding a way to pay for college. Becoming a cook in the grand Hobsons estate seemed like the perfect opportunity—until a twist of fate lands her in a wedding dress, hidden behind a veil, taking vows meant for someone else. Ashar Hobsons, 25, a powerful businessman, thinks he's marrying his childhood fiancée. But his world turns upside down—he’s been tricked into marrying a stranger. Two strangers. One unplanned marriage. No easy way out. And definitely… no room for love. Or is there?

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102 Chapters

Am I Free?

Sequel of 'Set Me Free', hope everyone enjoys reading this book as much as they liked the previous one. “What is your name?” A deep voice of a man echoes throughout the poorly lit room. Daniel, who is cuffed to a white medical bed, can barely see anything. Small beads of sweat are pooling on his forehead due to the humidity and hot temperature of the room. His blurry vision keeps on roaming around the trying to find the one he has been looking for forever. Isabelle, the only reason he is holding on, all this pain he is enduring just so that he could see her once he gets out of this place. “What is your name?!” The man now loses his patience and brings up the electrodes his temples and gives him a shock. Daniel screams and throws his legs around and pulls on his wrists hard but it doesn’t work. The man keeps on holding the electrodes to his temples to make him suffer more and more importantly to damage his memories of her. But little did he know the only thing that is keeping Daniel alive is the hope of meeting Isabelle one day. “Do you know her?” The man holds up a photo of Isabelle in front of his face and stops the shocks. “Yes, she is my Isabelle.” A small smile appears on his lips while his eyes close shut.

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22 Chapters

I am Josephine

After sacrificing her vision, dreams and true love for her father's life, the amazing life of Josephine goes sour. All feats she planned to achieve were swept under the rug. What she doesn't know is that there are more secrets to her arranged marriage than she knows. What will she do when she finds out her true identity? What will she do when she finds out the real truth? Will she forge ahead and fight for her love and family or will she drown in the storm of her life challenges? Only time will reveal. Join Josephine on this romantic and mind thrilling adventure.

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Who am I

Layla's life has never been normal. From a young age she was raised by vampires, only to fall into the hands of a pack. Everyday after that, Layla's life gets more complicated and more scary. At first her biggest problems seems to be who she is and who she loves, but never has a person been so wrong, because her biggest chose will be to choose who lives and who dies. This book contains, sexual scenes, violence, death and other triggering matters, please read at own risk. I hope you love my new book.

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I Am Mustafin

My name is Alaki Bea Miller-or known above: Alaki Bea X. That is what they call us, the inferior ones: X. In this world, I live under laws that declare it illegal to bear more than one blood in your veins. A legal system built on segregation by race, where mixing blood is the highest crime. In this world, I am not human. I am not a person. I am a thing, an abomination that threatens their system. His name is Efrem Mustafin, leader of one of the five Rings, Master of his race, and the man who saved my life. Legally, he owns me. To save me, he had to claim me as property. And in exchange for my protection, we play a game. One where I submit to him before watching eyes, and he keeps me safe. Master Efrem Mustafin, he is. Subject Alaki Bea X, I am. Or at least, I was. I belong to him. My name is Alaki Bea Mustafin, and in this world, I Am Mustafin.

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I Am The Luna

Rejected for another, Zaia Toussaint's life comes shattering down around her, when her husband divorces her for none other than his ex-girlfriend. Cast from her home and position, Zaia leaves the pack, carrying with her a secret that she hopes her husband never discovers. She's pregnant with his children. Sebastian King is the handsome, and well-known Alpha with a multi-millionaire empire, whose name is well known, not only in the werewolf world but in the business world. He has it all, wealth, power, a huge pack and above all the perfect wife. A Luna who his entire pack and family have come to love. The return of his ex destroys their marriage, causing Sebastian to blindly cast his wife and mate from his life. What will happen when he learns about the secret she hides from him, will he regret the decision he made by casting her aside? Will she forgive him and will she ever take him back?

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663 Chapters

When The Protagonist Talks Nonsense After Trauma, Why Does It Occur?

4 Answers2025-09-05 02:07:10

Wow, trauma can scramble someone's speech in ways that make my chest ache, and I find myself thinking about it a lot when I read or watch stories. Right after a shock the brain often goes into an emergency mode: sensory overload, adrenaline spikes, and dissociation. When I'm reading a scene where a protagonist starts talking nonsense, I sense layers — sometimes it's literal neurological disruption like aphasia or delirium, other times it's a psychological shield. The mind is trying to keep pieces of the self intact and sometimes that looks like gibberish, repetition, or surreal metaphors.

What I love about this in fiction is how it reveals interiority without tidy exposition. Nonsensical speech can show memory fragments, guilt, or the attempt to reframe a trauma into something the protagonist can bear. In one paragraph the character might babble about childhood toys and in the next they drop a line that is heartbreakingly relevant. When I encounter it, I slow down and listen for the echoes — phrases that repeat, sensory details, or sudden lucidity — because those tiny patterns are where the writer hid the heartbreak.

How Do Fans React When The Hero Talks Nonsense Onscreen?

4 Answers2025-09-05 02:25:52

Oh man, when the hero starts spouting nonsense onscreen my immediate reaction is usually a ridiculous mix of giggles and side-eye. I’ll laugh if it’s intentionally silly — like a deliberate goof that lightens the mood — but if it’s genuine bad writing, I tilt into petty critique mode. I’ll pause, rewatch the scene, and mutter under my breath about continuity or character consistency. Sometimes it feels like watching someone trip on their own dialogue, and I can’t help but mentally re-script it: swap a word, change a reaction, and suddenly it works again in my head.

Beyond that first-scan reaction, the community does the deliciously chaotic thing it always does: the nonsense becomes content. Clips, reaction streams, captioned screenshots, and five-panel comic edits show up everywhere. I’ve seen throwaway lines remixed into DJ drops, or turned into ship fuel overnight. If the nonsense is really egregious, people write headcanons or alternate scenes to justify it, and before you know it that awkward line is canon in a thousand fanfics. So even when a hero talks rubbish, the fandom’s creativity usually salvages the moment — or at least makes me laugh about it later.

How Does 'Cinnamon Gardens' Portray Colonial Sri Lanka?

4 Answers2025-06-17 09:21:32

'Cinnamon Gardens' paints colonial Sri Lanka as a land caught between tradition and the tides of change. The novel meticulously captures the oppressive weight of British rule—how it reshaped social hierarchies, turning local elites into collaborators while the masses struggled under economic exploitation. The cinnamon estates symbolize this duality: lush and profitable for colonizers, yet sites of backbreaking labor for Sri Lankans. The book doesn’t shy from depicting cultural erosion, like Westernized elites dismissing native customs, or the quiet resistance simmering in villages.

Yet it’s also a story of resilience. Through characters like the rebellious daughter defying arranged marriages or the servant secretly preserving folklore, the narrative reveals how Sri Lankans negotiated identity under colonialism. The prose lingers on sensory details—the scent of spices clashing with English perfume, or the stifling heat of Colombo’s parlors where power was brokered. It’s a vivid, unflinching portrait of a society fraying at the seams but stitching itself back together with threads of memory and defiance.

Which Quotes Sustainability TED Talks Use To Explain Climate Action?

3 Answers2025-08-23 11:59:15

I get a little fired up whenever I watch sustainability talks on TED — there’s this mix of heartbreak and clear, punchy lines that stick with you. What I notice is that speakers tend to lean on short, visceral quotes to cut through complexity and make climate action feel immediate and doable. For me, the most used lines are less about who said them and more about how they frame the problem and the path forward.

You’ll often hear phrases like “We are the first generation to feel the effects of climate change, and the last generation that can do something about it.” That one is used to convey both urgency and responsibility. Another common one is “Think globally, act locally,” which TED speakers use to bridge big-picture policy with neighborhood-level choices. “Act as if our house is on fire” (a rhetorical, urgent call) is used to spark emotional engagement — it’s blunt but effective in nudging listeners from apathy to action. Speakers also bring in practical mantras like “What gets measured gets managed” to emphasize data, tracking, and accountability.

In talks I’ve rewatched, these quotes aren’t just soundbites — they become anchors. A presenter uses a short line to hook attention, then walks through data, policy, or community examples. Hearing one of those lines live at a talk made me want to join a local energy co-op; reading it later pushed me to check the carbon footprint of my commute. If you’re prepping to explain climate action to friends, keep one clear quote, follow it with a local example, and then give one small, achievable step — that combo is what TED talks do really well.

Is There A Soundtrack Style When A Protagonist Talks Nonsense?

4 Answers2025-09-05 01:21:27

Okay, this is one of those tiny joys I nerd out over: when a protagonist starts rambling nonsense, the soundtrack often takes on a playful, ironic, or downright surreal personality of its own.

I notice it most in anime and whimsical shows, where composers lean into light, bouncy textures—plucked pizzicato strings, a cheeky xylophone motif, toy piano twinkles, or a kazoo-ish synth. It’s the musical equivalent of a wink; the score underlines the silliness and sets the listener’s expectations. Sometimes it’s minimal: a single glockenspiel note repeated like a question mark. Other times it flips to counterpoint—lush strings or a melancholy piano that make the nonsense feel oddly profound, like in 'FLCL' when the music both mocks and magnifies the chaos.

Timing matters too. Short stingers or abrupt cutoffs sell a sudden comedic reveal, while a slow, mismatched melody can make the scene feel dreamlike or unreliable. If I’m watching, I’ll grin whenever the composer uses a leitmotif tied to the character’s usual 'sane' lines and then distorts it when they go off the rails. It’s a tiny dramatic tool, but when done right it elevates the nonsense into something memorable.

Which Famous Authors Write Scenes Where A Character Talks Nonsense?

4 Answers2025-09-05 12:40:16

I love how playful this topic is—nonsense in literature is one of my favorite tricks authors pull. Lewis Carroll is the obvious starting point: the conversations in 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and the pure word-play of 'Jabberwocky' are textbook nonsense, full of made-up logic that somehow makes emotional sense. Edward Lear lives in the same neighborhood with his limericks and silly songs; those poems are designed to be delightfully meaningless and infectious.

Moving to modernist and experimental writers, James Joyce (especially 'Finnegans Wake' and parts of 'Ulysses') uses streams of language and portmanteau words that often read like gleeful nonsense. Samuel Beckett's plays like 'Waiting for Godot' and 'Endgame' have characters who loop phrases and tumble into linguistic voids—it’s less about silly words than about the breakdown of meaning. William S. Burroughs in 'Naked Lunch' and Anthony Burgess in 'A Clockwork Orange' (hello, Nadsat) twist language to disorient and reveal darker social truths. I always find it fun to see how nonsense can be comic, melancholic, or political depending on the writer’s aim.

How Does 'The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida' Explore Sri Lankan History?

3 Answers2025-06-30 23:54:11

As someone who devours historical fiction, 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' hit me hard with its raw portrayal of Sri Lanka's civil war. The novel doesn't just mention historical events—it drags you through the blood-soaked streets of 1980s Colombo. Through Maali's ghostly perspective, we see how ordinary lives got shredded by political violence, ethnic tensions, and government death squads. The JVP insurrection isn't some dry footnote here; it's shown through friends turning on each other overnight. What stunned me was how the author uses surreal elements—like the afterlife bureaucracy—to mirror the absurd brutality of actual history. The photographs Maali took become haunting evidence of real massacres often swept under the rug. This book makes history personal, showing how war corrupts everything from journalism to love.

When The Narrator Talks Nonsense In Unreliable Novels, What Is The Effect?

4 Answers2025-09-05 03:56:48

Talking nonsense in a novel often feels like being handed a crooked map that insists the river runs uphill — and I love that feeling. When a narrator rambles or contradicts themselves, the immediate effect is disorientation: my trust wobbles, I stop taking every sentence at face value, and the prose becomes a puzzle to decode. That wobble, for me, is where the novel starts to live in a different register. The narrator's nonsense can be comic, maddening, poetic, or sinister, but always it pushes me to become an active reader.

Sometimes the nonsense signals a fractured mind, like in parts of 'Pale Fire' where the voice derails into obsession, or the slyly misleading tone of 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd'. Other times it’s deliberate misdirection — the narrator is a performer, spinning tall tales or self-justifications. That creates dramatic irony: I know more than the narrator knows they know, or I see gaps and try to fill them in. It’s an invitation to read between lines.

The broader payoff is emotional and thematic. Nonsense reveals character (defensiveness, trauma, bravado), undermines authority, and can make the text alive with ambiguity. I find myself returning to passages, arguing with friends about who to trust, and even hearing the narrator’s voice in my head days later. It’s messy, yes, but it’s also the reason I keep turning pages.

How Should Writers Show A Character Talks Nonsense Silently?

4 Answers2025-09-05 10:20:59

Sometimes I imagine the silent nonsense as a little private radio station inside a character's head — chaotic, off-key, and entirely unfiltered. Picture the scene: they're at a dinner table and their mouth is politely forming words, but their brain is broadcasting nonsense about pigeons wearing top hats or an argument with an invisible cashier. To show that on the page, I like to contrast crisp external actions with jagged internal fragments. Short, clipped interior phrases, odd punctuation, and abrupt line breaks tell the reader the thought is jumbled without the narrator having to say 'they were thinking nonsense.'

Another trick I use is physical mismatch. While the internal monologue is absurd, the character's face or gestures are controlled: a polite nod while their head imagines a marching band of spoons. That contrast is delicious because it dramatizes the disconnect. You can also have the prose itself change — more playful syntax, parenthetical asides, or a sentence that derails into non sequiturs — then snap back to normal voice for spoken dialogue. It reads like a static-filled channel that the reader has to tune into.

If you want to play with readability, sprinkle in non-standard typography sparingly: ellipses, em-dashes, single_words_joined, or even a stray CAPITALIZED word for emphasis. But use that sparingly; too much looks like a gimmick. For practice, try writing a scene where the internal nonsense escalates from silly to revealing — often nonsense hides something true — and see what surfaces.

When A Character Talks Nonsense In Dubs, Which Edits Cause It?

4 Answers2025-10-17 23:00:04

I get oddly thrilled when a dub goes off the rails because it lets you reverse-engineer what the studio fiddled with. Sometimes it's innocent—ADR (Automated Dialog Replacement) lines get trimmed or stretched to match mouth movements, and that can chop out context so a joke or emotional cue turns into nonsense. Other times, translators replace culturally specific phrases with something more 'relatable' and end up creating a line that makes no sense in the scene.

Beyond that, censorship and rating edits are big culprits. If a distributor asks for milder language or removes a reference, editors will splice or rewrite dialogue to fit a required runtime or tone, which can leave odd gaps. I've seen scenes where a single cut for time made two characters appear to be talking past each other—so one of them sounds like they're non-sequitur talking about hats in the middle of a duel.

Personally I like comparing the dub to the sub-track when this happens; it’s like doing forensic linguistics for fun. If you want to avoid confusion, try finding a director's commentary or translator notes—those often explain why a line got mangled, and sometimes it's hilariously bureaucratic rather than creative.