If there was a backstory (part iv) - how it begins

~(continued from the last post)

Alright; so now we’re set to explore what happened next. So far our story went on like this: our hero is an author. One day, he had an idea about a romance involving two people of the same sex. But this was during the Victorian era and therefore, such thoughts were extremely hazardous. No one in their right minds would’ve allowed such fantasies to unfold in real life. However, our author was not someone who’d back off from being… different. He didn’t dispose of his fantasy. Instead, he thought of a way to make his dream, a reality. Ultimately he came up with a plan to mould his work of art; he decided to send forth his lovers on their journey under a disguise. He turned them into detectives; or to be more accurate, he turned one of them into an emotionless puzzle-solver and the other into his…companion. This odd mix was reactive. It was beautiful. The disguise was so effective that it went on undetected for over a century, until some questionable speculations were drawn up about the true purpose of their creation.

After finding out an interested party who would publish to the world his writings, (without any…alterations) our friend decided to set down his plan in action (this was probably somewhere around 1887?). The first part of the story was unfolded to the society. It was about the meeting of the two lovers. The fashion of the narrative was… unusual. One partner was typing an article to be published in a Newspaper. This was the actual text that was given to the reader. And for all we know, he never gave out the complete description about what happened. The story that we read, is what was intended to fool a Victorian critic!!! Oh how biased that sounds. Dr Watson, we are NEVER going to trust you (except when you describe ‘how incredible’ your object of affection was). Either way, back to the first encounter. The brain meets up with the heart, right in the middle of an experiment about (well, guess what?!)… BLOOD! How surprising.  Of course, they begin to coordinate from the first nanosecond. And during the course of the tale, become adapted to sharing one apartment (insert a lot of coughing). By the end, Mr Brain is submissive to an idea by Mr Heart that; ‘someday, the world would know and accept their complete story; the combination of the one he’s going to publish (a.k.a the text you are reading) and the one that’s ‘hidden’ (a.k.a. the subtext about the love story).

Now we come to the moment of truth. Has the world really caught on with this elusive pair of lovebirds? Has the reader (you) been able to see both sides of the coin; or, have they (you) ignored one side of the moon and ignored the other…? Well, it took thousands of years to human race to see the unseen half of the moon, but what about our story? Has the reader  been observant enough to catch up with the other half of a story that has been written down between the lines? Have you read the love-story of Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson? Because if not, you belong to the group of people who act knowing only half about an incident; a most dangerous disposition. Because when you are in the grey area, you can (knowingly or unknowingly) become a tool that’s manipulated by a more powerful hand. You are no longer your own master in thinking. You believe something someone has told you and have accepted it as it is, without a second question. And by being so, you have also closed your mind from different interpretations that lay all around. I have only this to say ‘get out of that box!!’ don’t live in a fishbowl. Walk around with your eyes wide open, and see things as they are, not as how someone else has described it to you. You have to build up your own way of life, isn’t that what you’ve heard time and again from all the sensible religions on earth? This article is not a rant. I’m not here to tell anyone to believe what I’m saying; I’m here to pass a reminder that to see the truth, you have to become your own master. Say no to dogma. Take a book and read it as the author has written it down; not as how some literary-critic has decided to publish it (in a Newspaper!! Sound familiar?!?).

The next post will be about how our author came to a point of… difficulty (although I think, this problem would not have arisen had he decided to come and live in the 21^st century….). Anyway, more of that later.

~to be continued.