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Babel
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Language was always the companion of empire, and as such, together they begin, grow, and flourish. And later, together, they fall.
“His beauty would have been intimidating, but his hands told the truth”
― All My Rage
― All My Rage
“Betrayal. 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
“If we are lost, God is like water, finding the unknowable path when we cannot.”
― All My Rage
― All My Rage
“You have consumed my thoughts since the moment I met you,” he said to her. “I feel now, in your presence, entirely strange. I think I might fetch you the moon if only to spare your tears again.”
― This Woven Kingdom
― This Woven Kingdom
“This was love, a love she had never known; At last, she thought, this is the real thing -- this gradual unfolding of another soul, charting one's course into priviliged inner territory, making discoveries of which you felt you were the first. Alice loved her work for just this reason, so why wouldn't she fall in love with people, too?”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
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