“Why? Because true translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair. The third point of the triangle being what lay behind the words of the original text before it was written. True translation demands a return to the pre-verbal”
― Confabulations
― Confabulations
“The promise is that again and again from the garbage the scattered feathers the ashes and broken bodies something new and beautiful may be born”
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“Women constantly meet glances which act like mirrors reminding them of how they look or how they should look. Behind every glance there is judgment.”
― Ways of Seeing
― Ways of Seeing
“When in love, the sight of the beloved has a completeness which no words and no embrace can match: a completeness which only the act of making love can temporarily accommodate”
― Ways of Seeing
― Ways of Seeing
“We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.”
― Ways of Seeing
― Ways of Seeing
Dara’s 2024 Year in Books
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