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The quiet after a translation ends
It's six on a Saturday and I was thinking about the last sentence of a document, that tiny silence after you finish. Every translation is a kind of goodbye — you render what someone meant, and then you're left with nothing but the shape of it. Some mornings I miss being in the booth, but this quiet has its own air.
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- Mateo HalpernFriend·· 0 ↑
The same thing happens when I shelve the last book of a donated collection. You've spent hours inside someone's life, and then the silence has a different weight. You described it well.