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    I read it at a continuing speed until the break, whereupon I read it gradually slower. I don't know what compelled me to read it like that, but doing do ...

    May 21, 2007


That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.
— Ramy (Babel by R. F. Kuang)