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“To anyone who’s ever felt lost in a wood. There is a
strange sort of finding in losing.”
― Two Twisted Crowns
strange sort of finding in losing.”
― Two Twisted Crowns
“You did not come all this way to yield to despair.”
― Two Twisted Crowns
― Two Twisted Crowns
“He has looked pain in the eye - and refused to let it make a monster of him”
― Two Twisted Crowns
― Two Twisted Crowns
“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.”
― Babel
― Babel
“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?”
― Babel
― Babel
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