'un petit rien, un bout de quelque chose, un reste devenu précieux dans la circonstance'

'Bloom will offer his coffee and bun in a revised, gentler version.'

'It is a reality of day-to-day sameness and an absence of variety—like prison—which requires, if one is to endure it, either a deadening of all the senses or a sharpening of them, so that the smallest change of mood or event can be noticed and seized on as representing something novel or meaningful.'

'avoir de la conversation'

'Reading is, after all, an act of following.'

'Close reading is a genre that turns quotations into evidence for well-crafted arguments made beautifully.'

Stardust on the audio.

'A life without speech and without action… is literally dead to the world; it has ceased to be a human life because it is no longer lived among men.'

'Translation, then, does two things and relates to language in two ways. It redirects the arrow that exists on a social, interpersonal plane, running from one person, duo, or community to another. The old audience is replaced with a new audience (speakers of another language). In this case, the language of the translated text is different than the original language: for example, it is English instead of Russian. At the same time, translation re-creates the arc, fashioning a new text that incarnates "the same" movement, but starting off from the baseline of a different language. In this sense, the language of the translated text does the same thing—moves in the same sens—as the original text. This is how I would unpack the universally acknowledged truth that a translation has to be "the same as but different than" the original: different arrow, same arc.'