“The poet runs untrammeled across the meadow. The translator dances in shackles.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Language was just difference. A thousand different ways of seeing, of moving through the world. No; a thousand worlds within one. And translation – a necessary endeavour, however futile, to move between them.”
― Babel
― Babel
“They were men at Oxford; they were not Oxford men. But the enormity of this knowledge was so devastating, such a vicious antithesis to the three golden days they’d blindly enjoyed, that neither of them could say it out loud.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Language was just difference. A thousand different ways of seeing, of moving through the world.”
― Babel
― Babel
“It revealed the sheer dependence of the British, who, astonishingly, could not manage to do basic things like bake bread or get safely from one place to another without words stolen from other countries.”
― Babel
― Babel
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