Relativity of the Truth 03:10 Oct 29
Lalit Ji's explanation has made it easy to comprehend the relativity of truth. Currently, in the big cities, all you need is the consent of the two parties and money. And the limited class of NRIs--the recent phenomenon--finds no slip between the cup and the lip. With the internet shopping, you can have all the necessary arrangement made with hours: because ornaments, paraphrenalia, rice, vegetables, hotels, halls...everything is readymade and readily available. But the proverb or expression under discussion is centuries old, and has had a life or reality of its own. It was set in the rural circumstances, when, for example, Levin from Anna Karnina, or every young man wanted to have no slip between the cup and the lip; but to their dismay only. Arranging rice, ornaments, clothes, calling people, arrangement of celebration, etc., took months and was subject to many unseen forces. That is why the expression has been traditionally endowed with the negative connotation. And that is why it has the standard translation: There is many a slip (or there was no slip) between the cup and the lip. The affirmative sense is the exception brought into existence by modernity or city-life only. | 
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