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Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

Perspective, Lost, Translate

Song: Invisible Ink, Album: Lost In Space, 2002

The fiction I've written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time. One of my methods for developing my own voice in fiction, a process I am taking very slowly and deliberately, is through these very intense encounters with certain writers. Strength and power in fiction is being able to resist these intoxicating voices, recognizing that they are the signatures of other writers and not one's own.

Adam Morris

Reading, Intense, Translate

Source: therumpus.net