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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.”
― Babel
― Babel
“They were the inverse and counter to each other. A healer and killer, circling slowly, the push and pull inexorable.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
“Being alive is not the same as living. I hope someday you'll have a chance to realise the difference.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
“Funny how often people in power hate politics, as if what they really want is to do as they please and be praised for it, and if they aren’t, then it’s all beneath them.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
“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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This is a club for anyone and everyone who is a fan of the dangerously delicious bad boys. Some of which can only be described as Patch Cipriano, Damo ...more
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