Comments on: A light haze which wouldn’t be pushed away http://snarkmarket.com/2012/8042 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Tue, 14 May 2013 15:49:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Tim http://snarkmarket.com/2012/8042/comment-page-1#comment-240875 Tim Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:26:07 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=8042#comment-240875 Well, Brooklyn and Manhattan are also separated by the East River, not the Hudson. So it's a double scramble at best, realism-wise. But that was hardly ever the point. It's just close enough to real, and just fanciful enough not to be. It's just close enough to silly, and ever so much closer to sublime. That's Kafka. Well, Brooklyn and Manhattan are also separated by the East River, not the Hudson. So it’s a double scramble at best, realism-wise. But that was hardly ever the point.

It’s just close enough to real, and just fanciful enough not to be. It’s just close enough to silly, and ever so much closer to sublime. That’s Kafka.

]]> By: Dan http://snarkmarket.com/2012/8042/comment-page-1#comment-236005 Dan Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:42:03 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=8042#comment-236005 More to the point though: I love this juxtaposition of Kafka and McPhee with Maly's excellent point. More to the point though: I love this juxtaposition of Kafka and McPhee with Maly’s excellent point.

]]> By: Dan http://snarkmarket.com/2012/8042/comment-page-1#comment-236003 Dan Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:40:18 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=8042#comment-236003 It does seem likely Kafka meant "Brooklyn," which had been an independent city (and the nation's third largest) until NYC annexed it in 1898---Kafka could make two easy slips in the 1910s by inserting another B-city and thinking metropolitan annexation hadn't happened. And the Brooklyn Bridge was and is pretty awesome. It does seem likely Kafka meant “Brooklyn,” which had been an independent city (and the nation’s third largest) until NYC annexed it in 1898—Kafka could make two easy slips in the 1910s by inserting another B-city and thinking metropolitan annexation hadn’t happened. And the Brooklyn Bridge was and is pretty awesome.

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