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Up through around twenty-five he’d never even thought about his back: it was a balanced, frictionless, self-regulating system. Now it felt like a busted gearbox into which somebody had chucked a handful of sand.
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“The act of translation is nothing more than the act of betrayal.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Those who are the fiercest to destroy their fellow men for having committed crimes, are, for the most part, at heart, criminals themselves.”
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“Degradation has been thoroughly tried...and the result was that those who inflicted the punishments became as degraded as their victims.”
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“All nations seem to have had supreme confidence in the deterrent power of threatened and inflicted pain. They have regarded punishment as the shortest road to reformation...nations have relied on confiscation and degradation, on maimings, whippings, brandings, and exposure to public ridicule and contempt...Curiously enough, the fact is that, no matter how severe the punishments were, the crimes increased.”
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“The poet runs untrammeled across the meadow. The translator dances in shackles.”
― Babel
― Babel
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Carson’s 2025 Year in Books
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