The temporal heart resonates at whispers From a Truth…

“Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering, and in…

— Ashim Shanker

“The fundamental basis by which the court’s decision might be made is, in itself, imperfect and subject to contradictions. There is very little consideration…

— Ashim Shanker

“In my mind, I could sense their roots under the soil, creeping in helical tangles of ever-increasing complexity outward and in all directions—out beyond…

— Ashim Shanker

“These facilities were relatively rustic even for this area of the world. Other inns at least had indoor plumbing and electricity. Most even had…

— Ashim Shanker

“Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.”

— Ashim Shanker

“The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.”

— Ashim Shanker

“Innumerable arcs intersect and scatter into a vast indefinite sea.”

— Ashim Shanker

“The...act of surrender—or devotion, as the case may be—was, to him, a kind of lifeline for those who sought a quick answer and didn’t…

— Ashim Shanker

“It is amazing how dispiriting it can be to enter a learning environment and to be made immediately to suppress your own exploratory inclinations.…

— Ashim Shanker

“All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy.”

— Ashim Shanker

“It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made the prospect…

— Ashim Shanker

“Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by the body…

— Ashim Shanker

“Naturally there was the notion of private property as a pragmatic concept, for individuals or groups have a proclivity to tend to their own…

— Ashim Shanker

“What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly…

— Ashim Shanker

“I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had engaged in…

— Ashim Shanker