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He buried his past life, not because it was so terrible but because abandoning it was the only way to survive.
‘Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes.
acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?’
‘Languages aren’t just made of words. They’re modes of looking at the world. They’re the keys to civilization. And that’s knowledge worth killing for.’
incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.
