Michelle
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“Good. Proud. I am scary space monster. You are leaky space blob.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
“Well, you’re not alone anymore, buddy,” I say. “Neither of us are.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― Babel
― Babel
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