“Writing is translating, even when we are using our own language. We transport what we see and feel to a conventional code of signs, writing... and we leave the responsibility for reaching the reader's intelligence to the circumstances and accidents of communication, not so much the integrity of the experience we set out to transmit... But a shadow, at least, of what deep down in our spirit we know is untranslatable, for example... The pure emotion of an encounter, the amazement of a discovery, that fleeting moment of silence before the word that will remain in the word. memory like the trail of a dream that time will not completely erase.” (José Saramago)