“No one focuses on how we're all connected. We only think about how we suffer, individually... There's a Chinese idiom that catches the gist... The rabbit dies, and the fox grieves, for they're animals of a kind.”
― Babel
― Babel
“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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