tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post6866341807757775411..comments2023-10-24T20:47:13.885+05:30Comments on The Spaniard In The Works: 'we have been here before'Space Barhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08251329008160756254noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post-67316932878898783992011-04-21T11:31:00.943+05:302011-04-21T11:31:00.943+05:30The writing on Kafila is frequently worse than eve...The writing on Kafila is frequently worse than even an academic background can explain. Contrast and compare with scienceblogs or the Language Log. <br /><br />Extra detail: all the mind-numbing updates the media provides from minute to minute. Who said what. Who wrote what about it. Who blogged what where about whose soundbyte. The kind of detail I don't get because I just read a few brief headlines a couple of days later and briefly surmise that something has occurred.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01544406500208399638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post-48095168082748123462011-04-13T14:40:52.263+05:302011-04-13T14:40:52.263+05:30km: truly. you should see the comments on the kafi...km: truly. you should see the comments on the kafila post. 374 and counting, i believe.<br /><br />jp: yes, well. most of them are academics. <br /><br />I'm not sure what you mean by 'extra detail'? I find I don't have a clearer understanding because I'm elsewhere. So maybe the details doesn't obscure, after all. But not sure I'm reading you right.Space Barhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08251329008160756254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post-12640142552702392432011-04-12T13:49:58.005+05:302011-04-12T13:49:58.005+05:30I just wish anything on Kafila was actually well-w...I just wish anything on Kafila was actually well-written. <br /><br />It's interesting how your from-afar view is the same as my disconnected-from-within view. Don't you find that the extra detail obscures more often than not?JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01544406500208399638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post-69887486396709076562011-04-11T20:33:54.581+05:302011-04-11T20:33:54.581+05:30It's impossible to talk about this subject wit...It's impossible to talk about this subject without getting into a flame war or being accused of being cynical (or worse, a cynical NRI.)<br /><br />But there's something comical and sad about the feet-touching and that photograph of a little girl helping break the man's fast. Goddammit, enough with the preciousness.kmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16040339235134145847noreply@blogger.com