The Onion Papers

The Onion Papers

#31: Cinque e Cinque

a very good sandwich, translating, cooking between places

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Margaux Vialleron
Jan 20, 2025
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I am working on a project that requires me to think about translation creatively. It is multilingual. It is deceitful. It is contradictory. For each untranslatable feeling, for each clunky sentence, I must break someone else’s pattern to slide in with mine, which unsettles me; at times, I am left feeling like a thief and, at others, I grow wiser. It is …

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