Matthew Clapham
Jan 19, 2024

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Oh, that is such a beautiful line! `

I will either steal it, and smuggle it, and asset-launder it in casual conversation with undiscovered Amazonian tribes who could never suspect my plagiarism (I'm prepared to adapt the phrasing to the constraints of local zoology - there's bound to be some weird potentially self-poisoning fish down there, or at least some bad trip doors of perception/gates of hell toad or something), or love-hate you forever for thinking of it, and leaving that bough of the tree of creation forever plucked and fruitless for the rest of us.

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Matthew Clapham
Matthew Clapham

Written by Matthew Clapham

Professional translator by day. Writer of silly and serious stuff by night. Also by day, when I get fed up of tedious translations. Founder of Iberospherical.

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