Abetting Pure Language

Benjamin believed that pure language emerged from the gaps that lay between multiple translations. If I was to strike one note, another, a sharp, a flat, what have you, the sound of that chord would represent pure language: not one strident or misplaced distinct note, but rather the sound of the different notes complementing each other. Somewhere in the gaps: pure language; complete understanding. He wrote entire treatises on the value of mistranslation.

Wishing for pure language. .