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babelfish: my battery is pure love part 2

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BABELFISH For D and P and S. For Douglas Adams and Florence Welch and Jiri Kylian and Ken Liu and Cixin Liu. and special thanks to Martin Boyd “The Babel fish,” said The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quietly, “is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centers of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.”  Douglas Adams’ (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) I am the babelfish.  photo by Zahra Saleki ** When I was a teenager, my dear friend Kevin sa...