Ken Schles: … In one sense we’re all translators living in that “utmost untransparent darkness” (quoting Joao Guimaraes Rosa). And it’s our special responsibility to illuminate the world for ourselves, yes: because we need to know and experience the world first to understand it. but more importantly: We need to translate it for each other, to help each other stumble though it. Maybe even to be sometimes amazed by it.