fragments intimate
The Language Between Us
Some thoughts arrive in more than one tongue.
Some thoughts arrive in English because that is the language of the screen, the manual, and the system. Others refuse translation.
کچھ احساس صرف اسی زبان میں سچ لگتے ہیں جس میں ہم نے پہلی بار انہیں محسوس کیا تھا۔ ترجمہ معنی بچا لیتا ہے، مگر ہمیشہ آواز نہیں بچا پاتا۔
The archive must make room for both. Not as opposing halves, but as two lights falling on the same memory.
The distance between languages is sometimes where the most honest writing begins.