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Sir Blackrock's fairy tale

Stories and News No. 1285 Or, The kingdom of words and the land of tears and blood Once upon a time there were two worlds, different and disjointed, contradictory and antithetical. However, for once you will be able to observe them side by side. How to read a story with the parallel text of the translation, but for the sake of reality, rather than for purely linguistic reasons. Or, if you prefer, how to follow two screens at the same time. And even if one of the most unavoidable theatrical rules requires never showing more than one scene at a time, in this case it is fundamental to grasp the meaning. Anyway the protagonist is the same. What changes is the context. Or rather, what differs is in the words, in their presence, importance and weight in the eyes of those who read or listen. And the discrepancy rely on one of the mirrors, where syntax and semantics matters little or nothing, I assure you. Therefore, as it has been used on these parts for more than a decade now, there was ...