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1 " It is naive to suppose that something that has been expressed in one form can be expressed in another without significantly changing its meaning, texture or value. Much prose translates fairly well from one language to another, but we know that poetry does not; we may get a rough idea of the sense of a translated poem but usually everything else is lost, especially that which makes it an object of beauty. The translation makes it into something it was not. "
― Neil Postman
2 " She’d struck Esk once before – the blow a baby gets to introduce it to the world and give it a rough idea of what to expect from life. "
― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)
