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Allison
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“…there is no such thing as humane colonization.”
― Babel
― Babel
“We're here to make magic with words”
― Babel
― Babel
“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
“That's the beauty of learning a new language. It should feel like an enormous undertaking. It ought to intimidate you. It makes you appreciate the complexity of the ones you know already.”
― Babel
― Babel
“A lie was not a lie if it was never uttered; questions that were never asked did not need answers. They would both remain perfectly content to linger in the liminal, endless space between truth and denial.”
― Babel
― Babel
Allison’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Allison’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
39 books
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1,236 books
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3,626 books
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73 friends
899 books
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420 books
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89 friends
257 books
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156 books
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328 friends
171 books
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35 friends
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