The Thought Train..

Monday, April 18, 2005

Fate is inevitable

For those who have not read this, this is a short short-story from Jeffrey Archer's "To cut a long story short".
As it says, An appointment awaits us!!!

"There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the market-place I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the market-place and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

Death says: Gotcha!!

3 Comments:

  • Tryst with History and then a tryst with death ?

    Seems you are finding a lotta things to write about.

    Keep goin..

    By Blogger Balki Rangan, at 1:29 PM  

  • Where are the posts?????

    By Blogger Woodworm, at 2:41 AM  

  • I am trying to escape one amorphous thing (which I am not able to figure out what), first I ran away from AUECE to Dual Deg IT then discontinued and tried my luck in Union, got bored of it and doors of CTS were open. Quit and joined GLIM, thrown out ( I mean successfully completed ) and now in Vista. I hope I don't see the figure and restart the whole race again.

    By Blogger BigBadBadri, at 1:19 AM  

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