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Three : Prologues

 One thing I am certain is that whatever I write down here from now on would be deeply inspired by Nassim Nicholas Taleb's writing style. Yes, he is the author of "AntiFragile" and definitely that catchy title is the reason why I am hooked onto one other creation of him.  Prologue - I This very conversation happened so long ago but I still remember it due to a very particular reason. This one evening whilst we were having tea and snacks at home after school hours, my younger brother striked up a conversation about something which he heard from his friends. As teenagers it was a spicy gossip about a young girl in our locality and the way it was cooked up to be qualified as a spicy gossip was indeed marvelous. After hearing his version, we were about to take part in this during which mom simply interrupted just like that. And her exact words were, 'Dont you ever think that I do not know how to put this dagger to good use' raising a knife which she was using to cut v...