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Tongue Breaks (the chapter on Sappho) is brilliant and so eye-opening. The Pleasure of Translation is genuinely the one of the first completely new perspectives on translation theory that pulls from a plethora of translation theories and techniques and still manages to make a distinctly unique point. Punishment by Radish is refreshingly funny while remaining succinct and informative. Loving it.

all she’s been doing is going to work and telling us how she was working at work and how she’s failing to write a book
it’s kind of repetitive i need less restaurant waitress sequences

".... the alt-right takes a privileged group (white people) and sells them the comforting idea that they are really the ones facing discrimination at the hands of the group actually facing prejudice (people of colour and immigrants), who are portrayed as the true oppressors." (21)
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despite being well aware of all these facts, I'm still bewildered reading it when it's so blatantly put into writing like this

I hate this

is the writer annoying or am i too quick to judge

third or fourth reread because i have never read anything like this before and i cannot get enough