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Old 04-05-2005, 03:08 AM  
2HousePlague
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Originally Posted by SleazyDream
27. Talk about translation work and what it entails.

As a theme, "translation" recurs throughout my life.

It seems I've always been concocting and deciphering Bridges of Understanding between "places" that, otherwise, could not connect.


I am a math tutor.

I "interpret" technology on behalf of theoretical users.

I do not respect boundaries of dogma or conventional thinking that tend to keep things separate.

I speak from a place of basic intent, which only becomes meaning upon the ear of the listener.


The Translator, for speaking both languages, stands between disparate realms.

In that space BETWEEN langauges, where words shed their superficial adornments and become merely "slugs" of purposive communication, you will find the (quite extraordinary) freedom to stand astride ANY line you please and pass things between the places that line holds apart.

Here is an example of speaking a language BETWEEN things:

Is Communism a Religion?


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