I guess all my posts during this one month or more would singularly boast of how much I studied. In any case, I finished 4 chapters in history today, and am more than halfway through the fifth, which is a great achievement per se, considering how short my attention-span is. The thing is that history bears the closest resemblance to literature second to literature itself, so it's that one redeeming attribute of the dead and buried that captures my interest. I'm juxtaposing it with dry subjects like geography where my concentration depends solely on willpower. I'm fine with environmental education - insomuch that I may almost seem passionate about it - because I can directly correlate with the environment. I have this something in my heart for the environment, which is probably as close to love as I can ever get. I love plants, and even suggesting that the minutest form of damage should befall a plant in my garden, or any other tree or plant I see regularly (or otherwise) is enough to create this searing sensation somewhere in my chest that has nothing to do with the fact that I'm asthmatic. I can go on and on on this subject, but I guess I'll end it here. So again, that's why environmental education is hardly a dry subject for me. Sciences. Nobody ever said that I don't like science; definitely not people know know me. Not to be boastful or anything, but I'm only so short of being a scientific genius. The only thing lacking is the internal drive/motivation and a thesis. Anyway, although I enjoy hearing of scientific things and exploring physical phenomena, I can't help but disdain how authors of science textbooks lack the ability to present their content in a manner that would seem even remotely interesting to a person reading it. I'm not trying to suggest that science ought to be merged with literature, because no matter how convenient that would be, it doesn't complement what examples scientific geniuses like Einstein have laid down in their careers. Although, I've been reading this book written by Einstein and this other well-established German scientist whose name I can't recall, and the language is great. I don't see the harm in adding a little literary style in scientific coughprosecough to get rid of the monotony of dead dreariness and not to mention grammatical inconsistencies. I'm not saying that everybody on this planet ought to be literary geniuses along with anything else they might be - Just that authors of science textbooks shouldn't treat their grammar as though it were trivial and insignificant. Trust me, there's nothing that distracts me more than grammatical mistakes, and nothing that engrosses me more than a few weighty words punched into a witty sentence. My chemistry textbook is readable because it's consistent with typical scientific presentation - in the sense that it presents its matter in a consise, tabular form everywhere, and I would go so far as to say that the language is grammatically accurate enough to be interesting. My biology textbook is probably as close to literature as science textbooks in India can be. But my physics textbook... man, I shudder whenever someone even suggests reading it - it's that miserably written. I mean, although I like physics immensely, I have to agree that it's more than highly impossible to present complex physical things in a non-uberly-mathematical way. At least in India. I mean physics in India expects a person to take all the mathematical formulas and other fucktarded shit for granted. They don't even consider it important to dwell on physical PHENOMENA. I mean I have a few physics books written by American and British authors, and they are a gazillion times more interesting to read than the deplorable pieces of shit that people in this country write. If only one would take the initiative and round up all Indian authors of physics textbooks and put them through an intensive course in English literature and infuse Shakespeare and stuff into their heads so that the next book they write may even be considered a Nobel Prize nomination in Literature...
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