Frantic Knives
The Khukuris are getting more frantic by the day.
This is the time where tethered goats replace roosters to dutifully wake people up before it morns, make tiny heaps of neat brown pellets all over the place, and steep in (around the house) their distinct smell that even infuses in their cheeses.
Imagine being the fateful, consecrated knife. a stiff yourself, held by a pair of calloused hands. Imagine being raised in the air, held there momentarily. You would probably squeeze your eyes tightly shut and already dread that momentous arc your path will trace, through the nape of that hapless creature, who, by the way, is nowhere near guessing that it is nearing its biotic expiration.
Imagine that you hear the grunt of the beheader as he skillfully jumps off the ground, so as to put a full momentum onto your motion, and flings you down; feel the pain of the blow when you meet the neck bone; feel the the momentary darkness as you traverse through the body; and the crash onto the earth to break your motion.
You feel the thin trickle of blood running towards your tip, and you hear a soft thud of the beast's head somewhere nearby. You hear yourself say: one life spent, twenty people happy. I am tired. no more, please.
The first time I saw a beheading of a goat, I was watching from the terrace, and I had this experience that I was falling down to the ground. The other beheading that I saw was of a buffalo in the movie Apocalypse Now- worse still, it was done in a slow motion, and the movie cleverly showed a super sharp machete slicing off the beast's fat neck, the fleshy part of which shakes like a jelly. ugh!! And yes, I still have not, and never will, watch that video of beheading of the Nepali prisoners in Iraq.
What a dreadful way to revere a goddess, wouldn't you say? If it were people in place of beasts, and some religion did fully justify the sacrifices, would it still be tolerated? And where should we draw the line? Or should we just be purely logical about the whole process and claim the rights by our supreme position in the food pyramid?
Phil within me likes to sophize thus...
This is the time where tethered goats replace roosters to dutifully wake people up before it morns, make tiny heaps of neat brown pellets all over the place, and steep in (around the house) their distinct smell that even infuses in their cheeses.
Imagine being the fateful, consecrated knife. a stiff yourself, held by a pair of calloused hands. Imagine being raised in the air, held there momentarily. You would probably squeeze your eyes tightly shut and already dread that momentous arc your path will trace, through the nape of that hapless creature, who, by the way, is nowhere near guessing that it is nearing its biotic expiration.
Imagine that you hear the grunt of the beheader as he skillfully jumps off the ground, so as to put a full momentum onto your motion, and flings you down; feel the pain of the blow when you meet the neck bone; feel the the momentary darkness as you traverse through the body; and the crash onto the earth to break your motion.
You feel the thin trickle of blood running towards your tip, and you hear a soft thud of the beast's head somewhere nearby. You hear yourself say: one life spent, twenty people happy. I am tired. no more, please.
The first time I saw a beheading of a goat, I was watching from the terrace, and I had this experience that I was falling down to the ground. The other beheading that I saw was of a buffalo in the movie Apocalypse Now- worse still, it was done in a slow motion, and the movie cleverly showed a super sharp machete slicing off the beast's fat neck, the fleshy part of which shakes like a jelly. ugh!! And yes, I still have not, and never will, watch that video of beheading of the Nepali prisoners in Iraq.
What a dreadful way to revere a goddess, wouldn't you say? If it were people in place of beasts, and some religion did fully justify the sacrifices, would it still be tolerated? And where should we draw the line? Or should we just be purely logical about the whole process and claim the rights by our supreme position in the food pyramid?
Phil within me likes to sophize thus...
posted by Milan at 11:06 PM
2 Comments:
For once, can I agree less! Phil in you has been sophizing damn well. Kudos.
I have often wondered, are we going to have food crisis if everyone turned vegetarian (by everyone i just mean the homo sapiens), more so if we were vegetarian there wouldn't be an immense supply of animals as one might be tempted to believe. Most of the meat product we consume comes from the livestock we keep. If no one is eating pork, why raise pigs,if no one is eating khasi ko masu, why sharpen knives and so on!
But well, non vegetarians prevail! Happy Dashain or Happy Khasain!
he he... sounds like a good idea. Though I wonder how can one clone cooked meat.
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