[OK, the title of this post is not the exact quote, but since that seems to be how it is usually quoted, I put it in the title. The actual quote is found below.]
All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences; which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable; because it is possible to render the meaning, but not the double meaning.
-Irish Impressions (1919)
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