to have several tongues in one's mouth might give one the upper hand in combat, having such weapons at one's disposal. this strength is in fact a weakness. reduction to mutism by the impossibility of choice.

to each tongue the world tastes differently. not a question of translation as of astonishment. the entire effort of writing can be resumed in a kiss, mingling of multilingual saliva.

writing like travel might give impression of multiple personalities by slight changes of voice and idiom. the opposite is true: the same world utterly transformed when spoken in another tongue.

language speaks a world. to speak a language means undergoing a tectonic shift.