In the parking lot, I found a rear tire of my car flat. What a terrible Christmas present!

"Because language is expressive action in time, there can be no unsaying, only denial or contradiction, which are themselves forward motions" (Steiner. After Babel.) "What is psychoanalysis if it is not an attempt to derive and give substa…

"After Babel argues that it is the constructive powers of language to conceptualize the world which have been crucial to man's survival in the face of ineluctable biological constraints...It is the miraculous...capacity of grammars to gene…

"Au fond, ce sont des mélanges. On mêle les âmes dans les choses; on mêle les choses dans les âmes. On mêle les vies et voilà comment les personnes et les choses mêlées sortent chancune de sa sphère et se mêlent: ce qui est précisément le …

"I say or write these things because after much reflection they are what I believe; and I also want to persuade others of this view." (Said. Representations of the Intellectual.) "Hence, my characterizations of the intellectual as exile an…

"There is a distinct sense of freedom in the solitude of the night" (Berkman, Alexander. Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist). It's very weird that I am translating an English text written by a Russian immigrant in California. Delving into the …