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@wilsonhartgrove George Steiner: “If, as blind poets can, we pass our fingers along the living edge of words – Spanish words, Russian words, Aramaic words, the syllables of a singer in Cathay – we shall feel in them the subtle beat of a great current pulsing from a common center...”

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 7 Dec 2020

3/ The subtle beat of a great current pulsing from a common center; the final word, the root mantra, made up of all letters and combinations of letters in all tongues. Earth Epiphany, planetarily manifest. @theMontyDon #nofilter #acrylicinksonpaper dailymotion.com/video/x7nm82s

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @thebafflermag Sublime, from @chebhocine on Said, echoing the trans-cultural, cross-fertilizing hermeneutics of the contemporary poet-translator, Clayton Eshleman: “the antiphonal traffic of translation, for me, opens up a greater assimilative space than monolingual reading.”Quoted by@thebafflermag Sublime, from @chebhocine on Said, echoing the trans-cultural, cross-fertilizing hermeneutics of the contemporary poet-translator, Clayton Eshleman: “the antiphonal traffic of translation, for me, opens up a greater assimilative space than monolingual reading.”Quoted by@stewartdantec Words are angels of Oneness.