Reading Notes #23

We're all a little lost in translation

“All immigrants and exiles know the peculiar restlessness of an imagination that can never again have faith in its own absoluteness.”

—Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation

I have a lot to say about this book so I’m not going to say very much.

Hoffman immigrated from Poland to America in 1959. She was 13 years old.

If it is presumptuous and arrogant to compare…