Weather Factory 
“Al-Adim and Agdistis are gossipping, quietly, about al-Adim’s patroness. ‘Not a hundred legs,’ says al-Adim, ‘but more than you’d think…’” If a videogame is a wall, what do you think – is writing more like the bricks, or more like the mortar? My answer would be usually the mortar… though it depends which game. They’re […]
Aaand we’re back! The previous article had us rambling about the structure of Alexis Kennedy’s prose, something that makes translating it akin to translating poetry. Today I am going to talk some more about linguistic treasures hidden in seemingly ordinary texts. Let’s start where we left off when illustrating the matter of rhythm: “Here, impossibly […]