MURTYMUSE

  Hanuman Hymns Selected extracts from my newly published book All literature is fiction and all fiction is based on reality. Imagination itself is a corollary of perception and experience of reality. Even all scriptural literature in the world is born of perception, experience and cognition. On the time scale of infinity, all literature scriptural or temporal is antipodal. It follows then that the eternal quality of scriptural literature inheres in its fictional character which through a mix of highest imagination and the transformational  element of timelessness turns the reality of life into myths and frees it from the bonds of historical time, giving it a symbolical paradigm that characterises its antipodality. All scriptural literature existing in a timeless frame thus transforms itself into its mythicality where even the literary devices acquire a complex signification dissolving the canons of plausibility. It becomes a kind of fiction that transcends all the barrier...