Reflections on Reality

Chronologically ordered aphorisms, affirmations, repudiations, comparisons, etc. PART 1 1. Sex, without love or strong affection, is a damp squib. (See Nos. 308, 849 & 2. 69 (Part 2) below.)         2. Just as lies lead to further lies, truth leads to deeper truth.   3. Learning is a life-long process: if you’re still learning, you can know you’re still living; if not, you’re merely existing.   4. The most succinct contemporary affirmation of faith that I know of is Rupert Birkin’s following statement in D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love : IT ALL HANGS TOGETHER IN THE DEEPEST SENSE. (my capitalization)   5. The next worst thing after telling lies, is believing them.   6. The Muslim paradise: a whorehouse of houris, whose services are to be obtained by means not of money but good deeds!   7. The law in Pakistan , being cross-bred, is more often intractably mulish than just plain asinine!   8. As apprehended in Urdu:  Transliteration: kh ü da ‘voh’ nuheen hai,