One of the best poems about Christmas that I’ve read is T. S. Eliot’s Journey of the Magi . My short story, The First Christmas , was largely inspired by this poem. “The world went on with its usual activities of finding food, conquering lands, vanquishing other people, mating and reproducing, killing and plundering, building and destroying.” The narrator of the story, one of the three magi, says that. Caspar, the narrator, was on a quest because he could find no meaning in a life that revolved around eating, conquering, mating, and so on. “If human life is the progress from being a bold, free and above all creative child to cowardice, dependence and creativity that ends in procreation in a span of about 60 or 70 years and then succumbing to death as a child in the garb of an old creature, then, my beloved, I have nothing to be proud of being born a man.” Thus says the narrator of a Malayalam novel ( Manushyanu Oru Amukham - A Preface to Man ) which I read soon after
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