A lot of things are untranslatable plays on words, because of differences in our situations, not just in my situation or my novel’s situation, which must be reckoned with in the translation, but rather each of us and how we think in relation to ourselves. How things are meant by different people. (...) Here is the untranslatable pun, with meaning going beyond what words there are, our many gestures, sentences, and ways of our essence are nothing more than an untranslatable play on words.