...Nora: I believe that first and foremost I am an individual, just as much you are-or atleast I'm going to try to be. I know most people agree with you, Torvald, and that's also what it says in books. But I'm not content any more with what most people say, or with what it says in book. I have to think things out for myself, and get things clear.
... ... ...
Nora: Well, that's the end of that. I'll put the keys down here. The maids know where everything is in this house-better than I do.
---A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen.
ps: What did the key have to do here? Does 'shahityyo' (literature of all sorts) really change one's skin? And become a second skin? Or is it, like reel is for me, the only thing real?
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