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Dafne Hein
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“The problem with knowledge, is its inexhaustible craving. the more of it you have, the less you feel you know”
― The Atlas Six
― The Atlas Six
“So, you see, translators do not so much deliver a message as the rewrite the original. And herein lies the difficulty - rewriting is still writing, and writing always reflects the authors ideology and biases.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Someone who broke your heart is often not the person who can mend it.”
― Chain of Iron
― Chain of Iron
“The world was mostly entropy and chaos; magic, then, was order, because it was control.”
― The Atlas Six
― The Atlas Six
“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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