Babel

Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?

But he had to try, really try, to make sure that he did not stop dreaming in his native tongue.

They had the keys to the kingdom; they did not want to give them back.