The bars create the effect of the difference: feelings, noises, speed, stability, colour, even death. Every device and engineering technique there is, from steam trains to the foundations of buildings, relies on silver bars enchanted with “match pairs” words in two different languages that mean similar things, but with a significant gap between them. W elcome to Babel: the great Oxford translation institute in an alternative version of Victorian England, where translators hold the keys to the British empire.
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