Mediate tags: translation

The service of translation learns to spell out words already uttered in another language. The transference of guilt that happens in this exchange is a bonus process. If you specialise in doing translation for a mafiosi, you will form phantom memories of crimes you never did. Or rather you will form phantom memories of the effect of performing the narration of things you never did. You won't know what it feels like to kill someone in cold blood (till you do it). But you will know what it feels…