Simon Morris, responsible for some obsessively and slightly deranged reinterpretations of Freud, extreme reading and text based art is joined by Nick Thurston as they attempt to read aloud whilst peddling on exercise bikes.

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Simon Morris
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Translation Intro - Craig Dworkin
Doomed from the start, translations are thought to fail, by definition, to achieve the status of art. The "poetry," as Robert Frost famously defined it, is "what gets lost in translation." Untrustworthy (it always loses the poetry), translation's fidelity is suspect from the beginning (a good translation is said to be "faithful" — faint praise for an exception that throws the basic character of all the others into doubt).
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