Assigned Blog Post #6: You're Brilliant

http://inxplash.blogspot.com/2010/10/translation.html

I really loved this post about "The Translation" by Joyce Carol Oates. I had just been reading the story, and this post cleverly summed up what I had been trying so hard to find the words for. The parts I especially agreed with were: “we go to a foreign country with a translator, the translator becomes one of our senses. Depending on who our translator is, we will have a good or bad experience, as shown by Oliver’s story,” and “Liebert becomes Oliver’s mouthpiece and also is method of perceiving other people through their questions,” and “once Oliver’s translator is switched, the magic of the city vanishes.” This post does a really good job of pinpointing the message in Oates story. Nathan—you always write awesome posts, but this one really stood out to me because I was trying hard to translate my feelings about this story into words, and you really summarized the story up beautifully.