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“It took witnessing it happening, in person, for me to realize all the abstractions were real. And, even then, I tried my hardest to look away. It’s hard to accept what you don’t want to see.”

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Book:Babel

Source: Babel

“They were, in the end, only vessels for the languages they spoke.”

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Book:Babel

Source: Babel

“The professors like to pretend that the tower is a refuge of pure knowledge, that it sits above the mundane concerns of business and commerce, but it does not. It’s intricately tied to the business of colonialism. It is the business of colonialism.”

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Book:Babel

Source: Babel

“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal.”

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Book:Babel

Source: Babel

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