Making hay while the sun shines is easy than making the sun shine for itself. This can connotatively sound like a paradox. Making the sun shine is not in a probable capacity of any subject except when the sunshine tends to be personal. Every one is looking for something. Something better to share and something better to live with. References can be a learning tool itself. Originality in ideas tend to emerge not in a rush, but in tranquility. Humans think in patterns and consider that social. Universe conspires us to achieve our goal when we aim to achieve it—this was said by Paulo Coelho. This idea has been translated in hindi also as far as I know. We will need such new ideas and that is equivalent to making the sunshine. I find myself dislocated when I pick up some 19th century works and Novels currently and not all because I want to live in the present time although this might be the age of consequences. Like some political theories that have led us to this age of consequences, we need to wake up. Sunshine that is personal is never personal because the sun is for all. This awakening is necessary. Literary references pave our path with philosophy which is not related to technical issues. I am in a process of reading non-fiction and I can see it has allusions from literary texts. How a particular story ends in a literary work is a decision of a writer. How a particular plot is justifiable is a figment of imagination of the mind. We can be way ahead of our time in the literary work that we produce. When poetry is seen with scorn, we need more verses that can let us know that we are poets of hearts and minds, and that alleviates us from who we are. There is divinity in poetry. The idea that we can contribute a verse from our side and that the verse alleviates us is given by the father of free verses Walt Whitman. The book "Leaves of Grass" was self-published by Whitman. I am reading the book and it sounds like a naturalistic world. It is about America. He has been nationalistic and naturalistic in the upbringing of his verses and maybe that is why they are still read. In the popular TV series Breaking Bad we have the scene when the main character Walter White is seen reading the book of poetry "The Leaves of Grass" by Whitman. Walter White is seen reading the book after the previous scene where his assistant narrates the poem "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Whitman.

Reading Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Harari at the same time one falls in the pit of contradictions—whether to have naturalistic perspective or fall in the bog of technical details. Well, both the understanding is necessary and more than that understanding the differences makes one really aware. Both the books have the same popularity in their respective realms. They are obviously quality works and the world should give a glance to them—fortunately the world has. Learning is a unique phenomenon that involves critical analysis. As long we can analyze the literary works, we can read plenty. We have to be able to put them in a right frame of time, but the gist can be applied in any situations. Making the sunshine is not a daunting task, it is done with self-interest and the value of humanity.

In the end I would like to write in this entry that even informal words from Stephen King's commercial novels make our literary sensibility alive. We want to know what the informal words like "shiv" mean instead of the common word "knives." The whole body of work when it contains the set of informal words make the read more interesting. What is literary has also been changed in the age of commercial works. We have preferences, also choices and expressions have never been rigid—this is the worthy part which the age has achieved.

By Sushant Thapa

From: Nepal

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