Siri Hustvedt Quotes
Words Accrue And Lose Meaning Through A Semantic Mobility Dependent On The Community In Which They Thrive, And These Meanings Cannot Be Divorced From Bodily Sensation And Emotion. Slang Emerges Among A Circle Of Speakers. Irony Requires Double Consciousness, Reading One Meaning And Understanding Another. Elegant Prose Involves A Feeling For The Rhythms And The Music Of Sentences, A Product Of The Sensual Pleasure A Writer Takes In The Sounds Of Words And The Varying Metric Beats Of Sentences. Creative Translation Must Take All This Into Account. If A Meaning Is Lost In One Sentence, It Might Be Gained Or Added To The Next One. Such Considerations Are Not Strictly Logical. They Do Not Involve A Step-by-step Plan But Come From The Translator's Felt Understanding Of The Two Languages Involved. Rodney
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