Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints--the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk--we think we're using the ...language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for tra...nsformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »