tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post7273707788818960894..comments2023-10-24T20:47:13.885+05:30Comments on The Spaniard In The Works: 'fevers and disquiet'Space Barhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08251329008160756254noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post-11705234242843034722007-11-07T21:23:00.000+05:302007-11-07T21:23:00.000+05:30Ah, but that's assuming that you're not misreading...Ah, but that's assuming that you're not misreading the signs because someone <I>is</I> producing them and because they've gone to all that bother, it must mean something, preferably positive.<BR/><BR/>What if you see signs were none were made or intended? What if everything appears to be signalling what you want to believe?<BR/><BR/>Apropos of <I>someone who loves you and someone who spends their / your entire life making you believe that they love you even though they 'really' don't?<BR/></I>, Pamuk has something similar to say about New York/the US in general in his latest book. Absent flavours, he calls it. ( I owe Pamuk that word...)Space Barhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08251329008160756254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post-20364887648466108572007-11-07T18:50:00.000+05:302007-11-07T18:50:00.000+05:30"I should find Some way incomparably light and def..."I should find <BR/>Some way incomparably light and deft<BR/>Some way we both should understand,<BR/>Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand"<BR/><BR/>- T.S. Eliot.<BR/><BR/>Of course, the economist in me feels the need to point out that it doesn't matter whether anyone can produce false or ambiguous signs - as long as producing the sign involves cost / requires effort, the fact that they will go to the trouble of producing that sign is information in itself. And is there really a difference between someone who loves you and someone who spends their / your entire life making you believe that they love you even though they 'really' don't?Falstaffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09791162324919462038noreply@blogger.com