......contd (2).
"At least you and your comrades Nota Bena and Post Script are made of two words, unlike that useless Addendum", consoled Alter Ego, looking over his shoulder at his shadow.
"Quid Pro Quo is made of three words!" pointed out arpe Diem, groaning, "I should have seized the moment when the poet Horace wrote me into his Odes!"
"Actually, we should have backed you !" shouted twins De Facto and De Jure.
"Hear! Hear!" roared Vox Populi.
Et Cetera was comforted but he knew he could never become the favourite, he'd always be an afterthought.
"Well, fair is foul and foul is fair", explained Vice Versa, an opportunist who flip-flopped often.
"Indeed, I'm sorry about our fate. If you all want I am happy to take the blame", offered the always-apologetic Mea Culpa.
"Let's just stay rooted to the ground. Our day will come!" advised Terra Firma.
"No, let's keep on rolling and rolling and ...." pressed Ad Infinitum.
"The bird walked to the boy store", said Non Sequitur.
Alma Mater, who was nourishing her children Alumnus and Alumna, watched the agitated Latinisms with Sotto Voce, who was usually quiet and spoke only occasionally in a low voice.
"Too bad everyone thinks the President has flipped for Quid Pro Quo", she whispered. "No one believes me but I've seen him canoodling with that sexy wench in Flagrante Delicto".
Suddenly they heard someone chuckling in the shadows. It was Non Compos Mentis, giggling with the knowledge that she, not in Flagrante Delicto, was the President's first love. Its most critical condition that this piece is shared widely, says Sine qua non.
Concluded......
My take
Real tongue-in-cheek!
Tailpiece.
Got up at my usual trifle before 6, the chores, opened up the house, put on the music.
Took leave of Lekha, went in Kunjumon's auto rickshaw with Letha who was going back to Kottaathala and got dropped at the rtc bus stand. Got a Fast Passenger and reached Thiruvananthapuram and the Foundation.
Trips to the venue of the Vaayana Dinam and to Poojappura.
A late evening!
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