This would have been your view if you stood, as an actor, upon the stage at the amphitheatre at Augusta Raurica….would you have had the audience eating out of the palm of your hand?
hbhatnagar
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The ruins of Augusta Raurica – 2
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I need to fill this up with much better content than I had populated it with earlier. Why I write a blog maybe? I started blogging in 2009 or thereabouts. I was a newly turned atheist and wanted to converse with others of the same persuasion. We're not exactly a big population group in India! It didn't go very well and I sort of lost interest, posting a few things now and then. I got a lot more regular over the last few months and have been posting almost daily since February '15. There were many reasons why I gradually became more regular in posting, but one way or the other, here I am! So this blog has taken shape, being at different points in time my showcase, my comedy club, my art gallery, my book club, my therapist, my close friend, my innermost self....but always my little corner of the world. You are all welcome to visit and I hope you stay awhile! A few points about me because I don't want to lead anyone on(and trust me this does become an issue more often than I'd care to admit). I'm Indian, the brown-skinned variety; if race, ethnicity or skin colour is an issue, you don't have to get to know me any more than what you see on my blog. I'm 40, so if age is an issue, please be informed accordingly. I was a doctor, an ophthalmic surgeon for 10 years before I quit practice.Discussion
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The answer to the question is easy: no; I would not have found the courage to step out there in the first place. 😉
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Posted by Elusive Trope | 28/12/2015, 9:33 AMI regret not quoting a little Julius Caesar as I stood there. 😀
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 28/12/2015, 9:46 AM“Et tu, Brute?” Ah, the chance to do the infamous dying scene. Which is going to get me rambling about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, so I shall exit stage left.
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Posted by Elusive Trope | 28/12/2015, 9:54 AMI love Antony’s monologue on Caesar’s body in the Senate hell,
“O pardon me thou bleeding piece of earth,
that I am meek and gentle with the butchers!..”
If there ever was a scene fit for chewing the scenery, this was it!
On second thought, I should exit stage left too, before I suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous tourists.
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 28/12/2015, 10:18 AM:0
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Posted by Elusive Trope | 28/12/2015, 1:03 PMWe had similar amphi in Wipro campus in electronics city, Bangalore. I used to anchor shows there 😊
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Posted by Alok Singhal | 27/12/2015, 5:35 PMMust have been lovely! We only had old style covered Audi-s at Med college. 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 27/12/2015, 5:38 PMYes, it was …
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Posted by Alok Singhal | 27/12/2015, 5:44 PM