important things

[abu nuwas]

I think Todd's exposition is quite brilliant --but I would not do it, for this reason. The repetition and breaks, what Billy called stutters, support the content. If you do more than a little tinkering, you risk the same fate as people who go into a foreign restaurant, and have one or two strange items, but chips instead of some local dish, and a beer, instead of the bitter coffee and sweet tea the natives have. The meal, normally, is a concoction whose parts support each other (and your digestion), but now, it is nothing. Perhaps an over-elaborate analogy, but it is the best that I can do.

Enjoyed reading it, which is not so usual.