The dream: to know a foreign language yet not to understand it: to perceive the difference in it without that difference ever being recuperated by the superficial sociality of discourse, communication or vulgarity... to undo our own “reality” under the effect of other formulations, other syntaxes... in a word, to descend into the untranslatable.
-Roland Barthes
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