" Translation is a tricky business," Holmes observed, placing the tips of his fingers together in his accustomed fashion. "Cervantes once said that reading something in translation is like looking at a Flemish tapestry wrong side out. The image may be there, but is obscured by a great many dangling threads. "

― Nicholas Meyer , The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols: Adapted from the Journals of John H. Watson, M.D.