The Granularity of Language

In a later phase, which is a phase when he's more of a public intellectual, he's less into the language. Even if someone writes letters to him, he says, you know, this word could have been something else. He detailed the challenges he himself had faced when translating an economics textbook recently. And what I find so fascinating about this is that on the one hand, there is this granularity with which you look at words and grammar and the actual craft of it. But as far as the content itself is concerned, he is letting himself go.

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