The Monkey Mind

                                                  In the early morn, at a crowded underground train station, a family of three had found refuge. The ponderous environment coalesced the ancient air which smelled musty, with that of the neoteric tenant, the human smell that wafted from unwashed bodies. The poor light had become a playground where fleeting shadows played hide and seek, with the dim lamps dispersed unevenly on various corners, uninhabited as if awaiting for grim reapers to walk out. " Evermore " *whisper* Under a flickering light... ...foreheads gently met each other, small belonging to a pitifully crying child, and, broader wrinkled in grim worry, to a middle-aged man whom she desperately clung to.  Her small clumsy arms barely encircled his burly neck, yet they refused to let go, as her teary voice incessant with desperation, uttered shiveringly "V ater, geh nicht, Bitte-Bitte-Bitte"   Yet, her squeaky voice weakened to a bare whisper, and unto silenc

Review on The  Movie "The Godfather": My Impression The justice of the man who only asks a favor for a favor, a favor you will not be able to refuse. The man with his silent pose radiates such power of immeasurable forbearance and a genius, a self-made man,  Vito Corleone a.k.a.  The Godfather from whom  I was and am deeply impressed .  He is the man of reason who wields the power to make you or unmake you with just a whisper from the dark world that touches every aspect of the American Life, be it within the precept of New York or beyond. It, the novel/film presents poignant and vivid strictures of the legal system, the social system, and human frailties which in other words gives way to justice in the world only for those with means and muscle. Though in the fiction, Godfather with  his world, with his diversified interests are not purely following the human welfare, though it in some sense presents a solution with dark and brutal machinations to right the wrong by a man t