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Koel Chu ruminates on masturbation, making a living as a translator, and writing without writing

Koel Chu ruminates on masturbation, making a living as a translator, and writing without writing. Editorial intro for Afterlives , a series exploring the politics of translation-featuring translations of texts from and beyond AAA's Collections, interviews with translators, and more. As much as I wish to romanticise the work of a translator, I found myself sitting in front of my laptop googling the two Chinese terms for masturbation on Christmas day. I made myself a morning coffee, with (online) dictionaries ready, and beats from Lofi Girl blasting in the background, just to convince myself tha

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