The Ever After Of Ashwin Rao (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
I HAD THOUGHT, on this visit to Lohikarma, of telling Seth what Venkat was doing. On our first meeting, I was prevented by his distress. The longer I waited, the harder it was, but it wasn’t only that. I feared that Seth somehow knew, and, worse, that he would approve. This is what I think: Oppenheimer believed he had usurped God. With the bomb, he and his co-creators could control Death–Time, the destroyer of worlds. They had moved outside of history. Oppenheimer was not without humility and public sentiment, but I believe this is what he thought. Seth may have understood that moment in the Gita as the one in which Arjuna sees he is powerless to affect the course of history, but I don’t think he thought beyond that to question the hubris of those who would wage war in God’s name or America’s. My guess is that Seth, like practically all of our countrymen, felt proud that in Oppenheimer’s moment of great glory, when he had a vision of what the world might become as a result of his genius—I am become Death—the scripture that best served this self-awe was Hindu.
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