Farrukh Dhondy | Life on Zoom: You learn a lot about yourself, and others too

“They say all property is theft Hence, I own nothing and am left bereft= My ancestors were never Earls or thieves And depending, then, on what one believes About making it rich through toil and sweat It’s just not true -- so I’ll place my bet On Proudhon who formulated the phrase With which Marx disagreed -- All praise, all praise!” From Dil Deykey Dildo by Bachchoo To “zoom”, a dictionary will tell you, is to travel fast or rise quickly and perhaps noisily. I suppose “bang bang” may have preceded Amerigo Vespucci’s discovery of Trumpistan and may have been imported, perhaps from Ireland, but adding “Chitty Chitty” to it was a stroke of genius attributed to the USA. The words inside the spiked bubbles or splashes, giving visual form to the impact of fists, aren’t exactly onomatopoeic, as a punch sounds more like “phut” --but “pow” packs imaginative power. Dhishoom!” The precedent is the Western “bang bang” -- because if it’s just the one word, it could merely stand for the slamming of a door.