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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 not affected by the agonies of the bad, will in a little time care nothing for the sufferings of the good.”
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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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“It is a great irony that society tends to look down on those who sell their bodies, but not on those who lease out their minds.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“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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