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Coyote Songs

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Un'estate con la Strega dell'Ovest

by Kaho Nashiki

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Così si perde la guerra del tempo

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Chiara’s Quotes

“History isn't a premade tapestry that we've got to suffer, a closed world with no exit. We can form it. Make it. We just have to choose to make it.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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“Tu fatti solo una domanda: si può risolvere con due o più bomboni?”
― Zerocalcare, La scuola di pizze in faccia del professor Calcare

tags: bomboni, secco, zerocalcare

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“After all, we’re here to make the unknown known, to make the other familiar. We’re here to make magic with words.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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“But what is the opposite of fidelity?' asked Professor Playfair. He was approaching the end of his dialitic; now he needed only to draw it to a close with a punch. 'Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, it means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So, where does that leave us? How can we conclude except by acknowledging that an act of translation is always an act of betrayal?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

tags: imperialism, linguistics, translation

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