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PART TWO stars are the only constant
1
"I remember the long days on the Marathi Pride, boredom which made time stop, the clock the same every time you looked at it."
Why was Vishesh bored during his time at sea? What blessings come from tedium and boredom? Did he change or grow while on the Marathi Pride?
2
"Why I am here, I can barely remember now. It was not so much a decision, as a course laid out by my father and his father. It was a course without headwinds and I did not resist."
These are the words of Captain Sharma. How does his life dffer from that of Vishesh? Both could be said to be flowing with the tide, without resistance.
What does Sharma see in Vishesh? To what extent does he see himself and a life that could have been?
Why does Sharma give Vishesh "permission to jump ship"?
3
"On the shore of the great ocean, all the people of the world together. One man on the flat of the beach where the dry white sand changed to the wet black of the ocean. I could see his face but not his nationhood. It was obscured by a set of black binoculars. He was looking directly at me."
What is Vishesh seeing or imagining as looks at the passing shore from the deck of the Marathi Pride?
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