Recently I have been spending a disproportionate amount of time reading other languages' famous works. From epics to existentialists my focus has been anywhere but America lately. For one, I am nearly finished with my longtime goal of reading from The Iliad through to Comedia. Secondly, it is appealing to take in and attempt to share "foreign" paradigms. In an increasingly global-village society, works of translation help to illuminate exactly how related we eight billion individuals actually are. Translation is an important portrait of humility as well. It is the recognition that no, one civilization didn't get it all figured out before burning to the ground, but maybe we can borrow from each other and get just a little closer before our society does the same
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