Status Updates From Mouse or Rat?: Translation ...

"sometimes I ask myself if by chance I write novels purely in order to put in hermetic references that are comprehensible only to me."
At least he's self aware

Don’t mind me I’m just going down a translation and linguistics rabbithole

I can barely get any farther I’m so sleepy.

I guess I understand the struggles of translating poetry more now even if I might not like it. This is why I need to read R.F. Kuang’s Babel. I think she’ll have some very good insights.

The thing about not believing anything until it has been officially denied is a little doubled-edged. There are plenty of politicians who deny things that stupid people accuse them of (like Hillary Clinton with PizzaGate) because they are in fact empirically wrong.