the wicked

We cannot directly identify the writer whom we are forced to read in a language other than his. Rather, all we can do is sense his soul through translation. There are elements such as violet rays and others that we do not see or understand their essence, but they affect what is around them in a way from which we can infer the nature of the forces that caused them. This is the case with literature that we are forced to read in translation. It affects the translator in ways that enable us to ...