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@mollyfmielke Words are angels. "The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish." - Terence McKenna

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 19 Jul 2021

@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.”

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Quoted by@MrEwanMorrison Controlling others? The Word speaks for and through itself. ?s=20Quoted by@thewritertype Okay, my turn to be a pedantic, trans-Atlantic fusspot. If words have power, and they do, 'demonic' is a word to be careful with, perhaps. To be palpably entwined with all that we see, hear and touch is enchanting but hardly diabolical. Hellish heat getting to you, Englishman?