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Mar. 14th, 2025 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelav"We may sometimes assume that a translation provides a window onto the original, but just as often, as Derek Walcott says, “to translate is to betray.” An old Italian pun—traduttore, traditore / translator, traitor—reminds us that the translator who connects two people always stands between them."
"Translation, divination, sacrifice, theft, and more: these are the connecting /not-connecting arts, and each is therefore well figured as the artus that is a flexible joint or the boundary that is a permeable membrane. To say this is, in a sense, merely to restate the old idea that tricksters and their actions embody ambivalence, but it restates it in a language that makes it clear why we may call the tricksters who practice these things artists in an ancient sense and their creations works of art."
- Trickster Makes the World
"Translation, divination, sacrifice, theft, and more: these are the connecting /not-connecting arts, and each is therefore well figured as the artus that is a flexible joint or the boundary that is a permeable membrane. To say this is, in a sense, merely to restate the old idea that tricksters and their actions embody ambivalence, but it restates it in a language that makes it clear why we may call the tricksters who practice these things artists in an ancient sense and their creations works of art."
- Trickster Makes the World
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Date: 2025-03-15 03:38 pm (UTC)wow I need to read this book. This is by Lewis Hyde, right?
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Date: 2025-03-15 07:28 pm (UTC)