Did the lion or the cat come first?
The cat I picked up a few years back has been inspirational for one of my characters. But…
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Did the lion or the cat come first?
A decade ago, there was a joke among website developers and product managers. It goes like this:
The company CEO asks you to create a functional and well-designed website for them. Somewhere close to the third round of design proofing, the CEO asks you to include their pet, Fluffy. Better yet, let’s put GIFs all over it. Now it’s ruined. You complete the job, but you’re dying inside.
So I wrote a novel. The main character is Nara Sinha the fabled lion-man who carried out a task that made the gods so grateful that future civilizations of humans decided to mark him as one of the avatars of Vishnu.
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You might ask me, isn’t that getting into religious hot water, touching on an avatar of Vishnu?
