The Anatomy of Grief
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Disable Retardation.
It is amazingly rare to come across a criminal or culprit, especially a habitual one, who is physically or mentally handicapped in one way or other. A lame robber, a blind terrorist, a dumb hijacker, an impotent rapist or a dull-minded abductor are or could be some of those. To be a refined criminal requires perfection in all of the faculties. This gives birth to two recommendations. Firstly, a non-criminal or innocent who is apparently normal in all respects of physical matters should still be taken as harbouring some intrinsic disability that prevents him from committing any crime. Secondly, if we want peace, affluence, calmness and justice for or in a healthy society, everyone should be a sort of disabled individual so that the abilities and probabilities of committing crime be minimised.
Metahertz.
1: Some alarming signals and ultimatums sent by the dead, due to the post-life and trans-death experiences and conditions, but undetectable by those still at large. The only alternative to receive those messages of SYS (save your souls) is through ultra-concentrated emphatic rumination.
2: Messages from the grave equivalent to those sent by scientists to the aliens, but which are equally futile in their practical implications and in any expectation of return of some form of response from the reasonable beings. The living dead above earth and the dead living encapsulated by it have many areas common in their grievances, but due to distinct wave lengths their reception of each others’ calls remains impossible, wandering around them unnoticed. The remaining souls in both of the groups are merely distortions of some magnetic storms too weak to establish any spiritual connection.
Watermark Corrosion.
The silent lamentations and protests of the figures and shapes on currency notes and coins when they find themselves changing hands in the trades for virtue, conscience, blood, skin, self respect, honour, peace, friendship, justice, consanguinities and such other concrete and abstract verbs, nouns and subjects which are otherwise too sacred to be negotiated in monetary terms. The second malignancy of the same trend is that we become tight-fisted when an appropriate and timely use of money could have rescued the suffering party in all of these respects mentioned. The features of those currency notes actually bear the notes of curses and aftermaths of man’s unmeritorious arbitrations along with contemptible and sinister dealings. The purity of the dictums adorning the face of those bills, sanctity of the worth in digits, the persons illustrated for their reputation, respect and importance and the obligations to the Creator, all of these feel themselves denuded in public,
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About the Book
The book deals with the cosmos of grief taking it as a separate subject that is studied through its cross section after segmentalization. It is done by discussing the human state of affairs that generates tragedy at common levels. This exploration is achieved by devising new terminologies and expressions. Meanwhile the terms of some other subjects like science, arts and music have also been moulded to leave new meanings. The discussion on each of the terms varies in detail so whoever reads it may find a sense of association to some sort of similar grief existing in one’s life. The blend of realistic, surrealistic and abstract ideas would invite the reader to think over the serious concerns that somehow damage the soul. The working of heart, mind, intentions and actions has been analysed. The reader would observe an effort done for revealing the mechanism of subconsciousness but without setting anyone a hero or a villain. Man is criticised for some aspects related to the shades of social, ethical interpersonal and to some extent religious practices. Aristotle once suggested that tragedy is possible without characters but not without action. This book coincidentally tries to achieve this because actions are found as characters causing tragedy simultaneously arousing pity and fear. As the name suggests the subject of grief has been dissected for an examination through autopsy. The book resembles a dictionary in its presentation for the conduction of concepts but without respecting the order of the entries.
About the Author
Ahmed Sajjad Qazi is originally from Lahore, Pakistan. When he was an infant, he lost his father in a fatal car accident. His father was returning home from abroad on Eid holidays and was buried in Iran. His mother brought him up with his four other siblings while three of the elders lost their eyesight in youth due to some retinal defects. The persistence of personal traumas and associated emotional crises of the family left indelible effects on his thoughts though never making him succumb to hopelessness or negativism. His mother phenomenally overcame all of the subsequent hurdles and rescued the family but not without receiving profound grief during this marathon spread over two decades. The refuge in developing some interest for photography, watercolour, calligraphy and reading literature helped him overcoming those difficult moments in life. He studied English literature for his postgraduation in his country. He could never seek a durable employment but mostly earned through teaching students of different levels. The quest for a dynamic and broader horizon of life drove him coming to the UK in 2004 as a student. There he started compiling the ideas he had envisioned to accomplish almost a decade earlier. He had waited patiently since then to let himself mature specially in the environment of a new country before he decided to start writing at last. It took him more than three years shaping this book and he designed its cover himself that reflects the concrete and abstract dimensions of real life. He hopes to continue writing taking it as a medium of sharing the concepts.