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could this really be my fifth translation/retelling of Antigone this year????

so far, not so good 🥱 translating it is more engaging than reading it, I fear 😬

Caesar referring to himself in the third person will never not be weird

“Now he was carrying something he wanted to keep, and that changed everything”

“when you’ve lived the way I have, surrounded by evil, isn’t there some slight advantage in death?”

This is so much better than Mother Courage.

“There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, ‘Consume me.’”

“But when we sit together, close, … we melt into each other’s phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.” (10)