Do: The Fourth Musketeer of Lust, Love, and Life

By Mallikarjun B. Mulimani

Once upon a time, in a faraway land, where kingdoms are abound with mystical elements, there lived a prince who was about to begin the journey of his lifetime—a journey in search of the simple Truth.

Young Do, the son of a brave soldier-turned-king, embarks in search of IP, the magical Inverse Prism which would make diverse ones one. Having been aimless for much of life, battling addiction and struggling with his forgetful nature, he believes that discovering IP will not just solve his problems, but also bring into existence an ‘ideal society’.

Aided by his best friends, The Three Musketeers, as well as the love of his life, The Rainbow Woman, Do becomes the Fourth Musketeer in this ultimate journey, a journey he deems to be the purpose of his life. The more he sees people convincing themselves of the ‘untruths’, the more determined he becomes in his search. However, the cost of seeking simplicity seems to be complexity.

Where will this path lead Do? From a prince to a musketeer, what more is in store for him?

‘DO’ is a philosophical fairytale trying to find the best through the worst and making the magical ideal the possible real.

• Language: English
• Publisher: One Point Six Technologies Pvt Ltd
• Release date: May 26, 2022
• ISBN: 9789356101326

Mallikarjun B. Mulimani

MALLIKARJUN B. MULIMANI is a versatile writer. He writes novellas, novels, and long and short poems including haikus. His books and style of writing, where brevity is the hallmark, influenced by his engineering background, are unique and highly acclaimed. His writings are crisp, carrying a theme and a message making them highly readable. So far, he has twenty-five books to his credit. They revolve around diverse themes: the psychology of humans and their milieu, God, love, sex, religion, the realization of self, life and death. They often touch the metaphysical domain.

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Young Do

Do’s is the story of a prince becoming a musketeer then a free sage.

Do’s father had been a humble yet brave soldier who had turned knight through valour and then king.

Do, when young and in his father’s kingdom, had been unknown to almost all. He had neither used his father’s name nor power to garner anything for himself.

People used to ask:

Does the king have a son?

What does he do?

What does he look like?

But Do was always incognito.

But Do’s fortune forsook him.

The knights in his father’s coterie turned against him.

They asked him to prove his Godly worth by pitting the Devil against him.

They said he was a pale white joke and asked him to show his true colours by becoming a musketeer in a neighbouring kingdom.

Little did they know they had let a warrior of peace loose.

Young Do’s Realizations

Young Do, whenever he realized something, used to forget very soon after his realizations.

He used to realize:

‘Every thought should be got rid of after it has occurred, bewitching or not.

‘Otherwise, its witch comes to haunt you.

‘Bewitching or not.

‘This witch wants to make you its bitch.’

Young Do’s forgetfulness was the cause of his uneasiness.

If he had just let each and every thought flow through him and go, he would never have had to search for anything, for he would have already been at peace, and that is what foolish men search for all their lives after destroying the peace that is already theirs at birth by accumulated thoughts, all of them unnecessary.

Do

It was a terrible magical kingdom named Love over which everybody ruled and put the blame of their failures upon the head of their king, Professor Good.

He had ruled for a long time, and the only reason he had been able to do so was because of his Three Musketeers: the Pencil Man, the Colourless Man, and the Zero Man. But they were growing old and sought a young doer who would do the kingdom