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Frank Zappa Quotes: So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means.
         

So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means.


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