Joseph Smith Translation

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    Tasting of the sweet damp woods and of the rain one inch above the meadow:

    It was like feasting upon air.
    —William Jay Smith (b. 1918)

    Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information—hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.
    Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)