my house of stone

stimming isn’t enough i need to take my body apart and put it back together as one would a clockwork machine or a particularly nifty toy car

luke alvez could run me over with a truck and I would say thank you

when I say ‘remember’ what’s the first taylor swift lyric that comes to mind

necromancer with a sense of humor who works a day job as a divorce lawyer

"if death doesn't part you, i will"

I hope everything gets better for all of us, I hope we all find the peace we’re looking for

i love translations i love the act of translation i love it so so much

translation is so fun because people feel so strongly about it and for good reason because ultimately it's all about sacrifice. do you sacrifice form for content? content for mood? mood for form? there are no solutions just compromises. as anthony burgess said, "translation is not a matter of words only; it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture". nabokov referred to a bad translation as giving "the impression that I am witnessing a murder and can do nothing to prevent it". the husband and wife translators of russian novels, pevear and volokhonsky work in tandem, translating and reading and polishing in a process pevear referred to as "raising questions". douglas hofstadter asked multiple people he knew to translate a short 16th century french poem and came back with wildly varying results. to use eliot weinberger's words, "every reading of every poem, regardless of language, is an act of translation" and the actual literal act of translating from one language to another exposes so much about the languages and the author and the translator and the reader of the translation! it's a deeply intricate analysis that expands continuously outward!

they should invent being awake and attentive and having energy