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The Turks’ Indian empire in splinters, it passed into the hands of Afghan horse-breeders — the Lodi — who later succumbed to his descendants, the Mughals.
It makes no noise when they whack things with it (unlike a wooden spoon), and the blade gives them something to gnaw on, which they find very satisfying, and there's no risk of splinters.
"Like Pablo Picasso thrillingly exploding old notions of how we perceive faces and wine bottles, director Steven Soderbergh thrillingly splinters time and action" in this "small cubist masterpiece," exclaims Entertainment Weekly 's Lisa Schwarzbaum.
This phenomenon gets more interesting as the culture splinters and technology creates new languages--which is one of my main problems with Miller's critique.