Befores and Afters

A beginning is that which has nothing before it. But certainly, it has something – nay, much more than something which may go up to ad infinitum or beyond the all thinkable beyond…. A preface usually is not an exposition for an exposition is a sort of flashback in which something which has occurred is to be exposed: it seems to cast lingering looks behind. Unlike the exposition, therefore, it is more of an index or a foregrounding paradigm: it is a blueprint of the UPCOMING. This said, however, the present introduction quite paradoxically attempts to introduce a little volume of numerous prefaces/ introductions which had been written from time to time. The past is future-d and the would-be is to be now-ed. And in the midst of all this, the writer is simply a dot, provided time is spatial. A dot, be it time or in space has a centrifugal-ing latency and can therefore move in any direction. His presence is plasmic and persona is mercurial. He is shapeless, sans gender, sans belonging: he is of all times. Limitless and timeless.