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When we speak of Fitzgerald's style, we don't mean his command of the relative pronoun, we mean the sound his words make on paper.
There is a relationship between language and music and sport, everything that has rhythm. Though I had an innate understanding of this, like all humans must, I first articulated it soon after theRoja film was released. Actually, I mean the songs of the film. I was listening to the Hindi version. But it had this distinct South Indian flavour to it. Though I was listening to Hindi, it did not sound like Hindi. Then I realised the music and rhythm was composed for the natural flow of Tamil lyrics. Hindi was later forced into that rhythmic structure. The sound of of a language is the art of it.
Another example that comes to mind is the poetry of T S Eliot. Read it out aloud. You will hear what I mean.
“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”
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“During the globalization wave, Amazon had lost the battle for e-commerce to Ebay, the battle for digital media to Apple, and the battle for technology innovation to Google. Bezos was hungry to re-invent Amazon over a decade after it was founded. The two masterstrokes of Bezos that created new revenue streams by renting out Amazon’s infrastructure – Amazon Prime and Amazon Web Services (AWS) – were at the time, shots in the dark. They would end up turning things around.”
― The Golden Tap: The Inside Story of Hyper-Funded Indian Startups
― The Golden Tap: The Inside Story of Hyper-Funded Indian Startups
“The economist Robin Hanson estimates, based on historical economic and population data, a characteristic world economy doubling time for Pleistocene hunter–gatherer society of 224,000 years; for farming society, 909 years; and for industrial society, 6.3 years.3 (In Hanson’s model, the present epoch is a mixture of the farming and the industrial growth modes—the world economy as a whole is not yet growing at the 6.3-year doubling rate.) If”
― Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
― Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
“In India, the rich want experience (exotic destinations, poverty, slums, contrasts, etc.) and the poor want escape (daaru -local booze, beedi – local cigarette, gutkha – chewing tobacco, item numbers, etc.). Everyone else in between, which is all the consumers you will build a brand for, have one want in common – aspiration.”
― The Golden Tap: The Inside Story of Hyper-Funded Indian Startups
― The Golden Tap: The Inside Story of Hyper-Funded Indian Startups
“Trouble is when you’re sober you don’t want to see anybody, and when you’re tight nobody wants to see you.”
― Tender is the Night
― Tender is the Night
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