Secrets and
That is the thing about secrets, and that is why we are eager to know them. They give us, once revealed, a false impression of wider knowledge.
~ Suketu Mehta , Maximum city
What is that momentous spark of an instant when the people you are conversing with realise almost without intent that you know exactly what they are or were thinking in all its temporal toto and suddenly like layers stripped off their consciousness, they fail to conceal a fraction of respect that manages to show on their face. After that everything changes, as if you had seen them naked or made love and are expected to know everything about their being and functioning.
How marvellous ?
But still what is such a moment called?
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