Timeline
A mythology of Dada Saheb Phalke
In which we keep time in years, each year like a woman's saree, gathering so much into its pleats. Each year aware that it is a lie, seeking to do what electronic eyes try to do in factories, seeking to be wakeful to everywhere at once.. each year aware that at most, it is a bundle of holes, eyes maybe, thrown over the waters of consciousness of which we know little except that they are and that they torture us when they don't just trouble us. We seek to catch some fish in our nets, so we can sort them. We seek to clean up the clutter outside by neatly framing photographs, we like to narrate the past as closely as we can, we spit ...
Your story threaded with my eye tries to stitch up the waters
We start our work with an invocation to her who sits on the lotus and again and again, puts a needle in those old grooves, letting them scratch. This can only be a parent, or a child, or a friend dear enough to become like either. Saraswati we invoke you, we salute you, you patient, loving archivist of our scratchy sounds.
The very vanity of the enterprise, when it finally makes me move, pulls me in further, and me and Me and mee. Like a large gathering of locusts, we scatter, making a new sky
A timeline must be fed. What is the shape of the monster?
A time line of postcards
1921 . 1922 . 1923 . 1924 . 1925 [[2]]
1926 . 1927 . 1928 . 1929 . 1930 1931 . 1932 . 1933 . 1934 . 1935 . 1936 . 1937 . 1938 . 1939 . 1940 . 1941 . 1942 [[3]]
Advertisement Before 1946
World History Timeline studying the world between the wars [4]
1861.
