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A Text Has Its Own ‘Samskara’:
From Deconstruction To Reconstruction

Dr. Jernail S. Anand

“We all know that literature is not truth. Art is a lie which makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to realize.” (Picasso)

Introduction

Tip of the Iceberg is a quite common expression to underscore something which is visible only partially. Most of an iceberg lies concealed within the waters, and we know how fatal it can be if we just remember the tragic fate of Titanic. What is life? If we apply the idea of the tip of the iceberg on life, it will not be difficult to guess that our life is only a tip of the Lifeberg which remains concealed in anonymity. There are a thousand things we think, and as many that we want to say, but do we say everything that we think? And if we think of our actions, do we put into action everything that our mind is fermenting with?

Extending this very argument, a little farther, I am tempted to believe that the visible world too is a tip of the iceberg. We see truly little around us, and there is so much that remains away from our perceptions. Whatever men have done, which now we call human history, is also only tip of the lifeberg. Just one part out of a hundred which have gone unrecorded. In fact, we have very quick sifting apparatus, and we put forward only that which serves the moment and leave the rest to evaporate into non-existence.

Based on this thesis, I can say with near finality that all the literature of all ages represents only a miniscule portion of what has been thought down the ages, and there is a huge amount of material which remains unrepresented, making me think of another word: Filterature which underlines the idea that events and thoughts were filtered through the consciousness of the poets and authors, and what comes up or remains as literature is only that filtered information coming to us. Such under representation is found in history and even in myth too. And I am tempted to call it Mystory, a blend of mystery and history.

Keywords: history, literature, samskara, text, deconstruction

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Dr. Jernail S. Anand
Prof. Emeritus in Indian Literature [Honorary]
The European Institute of Roma Studies and Research, Belgrade
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