searls-acoustics

March 8, 2025

The acoustics of the text is so much of what matters in a translation and so little of what people usually talk about: translations are always reviewed and praised or criticized in terms of their accuracy, or perhaps faithfulness, when the sound of the thing is what makes or breaks it.

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Thought:

“‘Fore they dig him up, need a lawyer and an alibi
Before we pull the jux, let ’em know I’m camera-shy
Rooms full of books, used to wonder what’s inside
Run my hands down the spine, now I sit saturnine
“

billy woods | “bigfakelaugh”

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