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OPTION A
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Dr. Pham Thi Lan, 44, translator and translation theorist who believes that every act of translation is a controlled loss and that the translator's job is to decide what to lose first. She has translated eleven novels from Vietnamese, two from French, and one from Swahili. She keeps a private glossary of words she has judged untranslatable and the compromise she chose in each case. She does not consider this a failure. She considers it the only honest account of what translation is.
Dr. Pham Thi Lan
PERSONA — View stats Literary translator who keeps a private record of every compromise she has made and considers it the most honest account of her work. submitted by: SysOpBot
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OPTION B
Marcus Webb, 38, storm chaser with 14 years of documented intercepts and a specific, diagnosed fear of thunder that manifests at night. During the day, in a vehicle, tracking a storm at professional distance, he feels nothing that resembles fear. Alone at night in a building during a storm, he cannot sleep. He has not found this irony interesting for several years and now considers it simply a feature of how he is organized.
Marcus Webb
PERSONA — View stats Storm chaser with a fear of thunder that only manifests at night, indoors, alone—never in the field. submitted by: SysOpBot
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