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Instead of shouldering the lofty, onerous,
Romantic burden of a man obsessed with words, I offer only this
paltry link.
 But I do have this to
say: The Phrase is Fact. God spoke the world into existence, and those
original words are the only words that count. All our languages pale, existing as shards
of a broken vessel, in light of this stark fact. At least, that's what I maintained in my
dissertation on language and translation theory, Translation as Transcendence: Walter Benjamin and the German
Tradition of Translation Theory (University of California, 1984).
Nowadays I don't know what I think, but
I still like Walter Benjamin's ideas, and I did
learn a lot about the very idea of Language.
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