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People who carried meaning across languages, sometimes losing only a little.
The Man Who Translated Everything Wrong
He translated the hieroglyphics on a famous Roman fountain. They are complete nonsense, chiseled in stone, and tourists photograph them every day.
The Man No One Could Stop
Burton pulled a javelin through his own face and kept fighting, but his wife burned forty years of his writing to save his soul.
The Woman Who Calculated Everything
She funded her physics research by calculating card game odds and winning.