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#WomeninTranslationMonth #WIT #WITMonth #TheInfatuations #MargaretJullCosta, translator …they would have spontaneously chosen each other…whatever there was to tell or to hear, it would always be less interesting or amusing with someone else…There was a camaraderie between them…a certainty.
#WomeninTranslationMonth #WIT #WITMonth #GreekLessons #HanKang #DeborahSmith, translator #EmilyYaeWon, translator Even before I opened my eyes in the morning, you would slip in under my eyelids.
#WomeninTranslationMonth #WIT #WITMonth #TwoSherpas #JenniferCroft, translator The old Sherpa heard that tsk and turned his head. He saw that the Englishman was stumbling, moving his arms like rattan blades, wanting to regain his balance. A mistake. The best option, always, is to fall.
#WomeninTranslationMonth #WIT #WITMonth #Flights #OlgaTokarczuk #JenniferCroft, translator At the point I departed from? Or at the point I'm headed to? Can there be an in-between? Am I like that lost day when you fly east, and that regained night that comes from going west….
#WomeninTranslationMonth #WIT #WITMonth #Attila #KatieWhittemore, translator To go from the beginning and not enter till the end. To go today now and not enter into today forever....you remain in your place like a cornered convict and wherever you move the center moves with you....
#WomeninTranslationMonth #WITMonth #TheManWithoutQualities #SophieWilkins, translator she spoke of beauty...love,he…the annual birthrate…it always began with Diotima talking as if…God had placed man as a pearl in…the world,whereupon Ulrich reminded her that mankind was a tiny pile of dots
#WomeninTranslationMonth #WIT #WITMonth #MidnightlsNotinEveryonesReach #ElizabethLowe, translator …up in the middle of the night certain that the ocean was calling me…who told it my name...the echoes of the pines in the echo of my footsteps, which of us is the trees and which of us is me.…
#TheDivineComedy #DanteAlighieri #JohnCiardi, translator “The other is Dido…she killed herself for love. …See Helen there, from whom such ill arose. And great Achilles, who fought at last with love in the house of prayer. And Paris”…he pointed out more …those torn from the mortal life by love.
#ÁguaViva #ClariceLispector Because at five in the morning, today July 25th, I fell into a state of grace.
#TheAeneid #Virgil #RobertFagles, translator Straightway Rumor flies through Libya's great cities, Rumor, swiftest of all the evils in the world… "Here this Aeneas…and lovely Dido deigns to join the man in wedlock. Even now they warm the winter…with obscene desire, oblivious to their kingdoms…”
#Ulysses #JamesJoyce …and now sir Leopold that had of his body no manchild for an heir looked upon him his friend's son and was shut up in sorrow for his forepassed happiness and as sad as he was that him failed a son of such gentle courage….
#TheDivineComedy #DanteAlighieri #JohnCiardi, translator Midway in his allotted threescore years and ten, Dante comes to himself with a start and realizes that he has strayed from the True Way into the Dark Wood of Error….
