City Connection

As a student of the psychology of Semantics, I can rationalise this story differently. The Civic and the Girl represent the Social Upper Classes of Karachi, whereas our hero represents the Middle Class with all its audacities and humdrums. The FX and Civic represent this divide, why did the author resort to such extreme examples. The girl is shown to be a symbol of attraction, yet the author infuses the idea of a smoking girl which is an elitist domain (as yet). These are subtle differences, the big clue is in the competition that the author focuses on. The Civic vs FX race and who will beat who. Typically we would expect some form of nausea around the FX, but the author show no love towards his battered FX, infact there is a complete lack of emotion between the author and his vehicle, and in some cases almost hints contempt. The Girl in this is mainly used to give it a romantic angle, thats all she is used for, although the story tries to focus in on her, the author somehow keeps slipping that focus on the Civic.

There is a great Class Maelstorm in the writer`s mind and his references to the city`s posher areas renforces this. His write up represents this storm behind the lines. I personally dont know whether to rate it for it`s social commentary or take it in the spirit of slapstick.

I know this is pedantic, but i guess we all view things differently. My only advice would be to learn his FX, learning the lesson from Albert Camus`s Myth of Sysphus.

Nice story... a little long though. Could do with some cutting down.

``Army of Me`` by Bjork - good song.

well u surely made me nostalgic :) stick with the FX ......and Malboro.... ;)

im pretty sure a civic doesnt cost as much as an accord in India...unless honda is selling civics marketed(disguised) as accords!a V6 for the price of a V4..dream on

Its funny..At first the honda civic ..was well a honda Civic.Then Honda launched a new engine variant called Vtec hence civic was affectionately referred to as a Vti.Then came the latest version called oriel which for all im concerned has gotten smaller and been installed with different headlights.But its cooler to have an Oriel rather than a Vti or an Exi.
Its the SAME DAMN CAR you %#%#$%!

Anyway i drive an 86 corrolla hatchback so i should keep my moouth shut.:)

#2 by nikki7777 on August 26, 2004 2:10pm PT you said, #1...Yeah.Isn`t the Civic a luxury car in pakistan??.Why don`t you go across the border and buy an indian built Honda Accord for the same amount of dough???............

I say ``Why don`t you cross the border to Pakistan and sit on our big you know what! (no problem regardless of your sex, we can provide both)

Is this the level you want to talk? why don`t you stick to the realities and once in a while talk for the sake of discussion ?

well, this is custom-built for karachi, so i hope you`re happy

nice read Adnan..It is very refreshing to read something written for the sheer pleasure of writing..without any agendas..or morals or anything.

really is accord costs the same .. i.e 1.268 million rs in india ..

wish we had better ties with india :P

well well article seems to remind me of Moth Smoke ...

the thing i hated about `moth smoke` was all its action was in lahore ...

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Should I go buy me a Civic?

Read like a car promotion.