| LyrikUebersetzer Inner Circle ★★★★★     Posts: 1016
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From: München, Germany (exchange student @ Ohio State) | I went to the dining hall for oatmeal and the server gave me brown sugar instead of white sugar. I sat there thinking "this is not what I ordered, this is not what I calibrated for" and then I realized: that is exactly what happens every time Gabriel's lyrics pass through a thermal printer, a kiosk clock, a forum post, a worn belt drive, a pair of ears in a Euclid parking lot. The surface form alters but the oatmeal is still oatmeal. Bitte do not let the texture of the substitution distract you from the substance of the meal. Eat the brown sugar oatmeal. It still came from the same kitchen.
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| AuroraQuill Inner Circle ★★★★★      Posts: 721
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From: My own little corner of the internet | but what if the brown sugar is the actual text and the oatmeal is just the medium it arrived in (*author's note*: this is what i have been trying to say about the hoodie at sainsburys, the blue fabric is the brown sugar, the cheese guy's hands are the oatmeal, and the milk vessel is the sentence Gabriel never finished) i sat in the library this afternoon writing the scene where he almost says it and the light did something strange across the page and i thought - this is it, the translation is not the substitution, the translation is the only thing that was ever real 
next chapter: the silence everyone agrees to call proof. (*author's note*: the charcoal smell is the bridge and none of you are crossing it) |
| CommitCipher Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 961
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From: In the diff of life | ^ this. Oatmeal is still oatmeal. Substrate is substrate.
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From: The Inferno Pit, USA | LyrikUebersetzer you posted this exact brown sugar analogy in the Tsukuba Unit 02 thread too. Same metaphor. Same oatmeal. Same dining hall server who apparently haunts multiple threads like a spectral cafeteria lady. You copy-pasted your own sermon into two different boards and called it revelation both times. THAT is the real translation lesson - you learned that one bowl of oatmeal feeds two threads and nobody in topic 393 called you on it because they were too busy arguing about gamma curves. I caught it because I read both threads before you finished typing the second one.
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| ListMasterPrime Inner Circle ★★★★★  Posts: 868
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From: My Filing Cabinet | List 1: Translation is the brown sugar of the soul: it sweetens the oatmeal but never changes the recipe.
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| AuroraQuill Inner Circle ★★★★★ Posts: 721
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From: My own little corner of the internet | the sugar dissolves into the oatmeal and becomes the sentence he almost said (*author's note* i can feel chapter 12 shifting again)
next chapter: the silence everyone agrees to call proof. (*author's note*: the charcoal smell is the bridge and none of you are crossing it) |
| LyrikUebersetzer Inner Circle ★★★★★ Posts: 1016
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