richard francis burton was an archetype will orientalist an explorer soldier, scholar and spy, who want smuggled himself into mecca, disguised as an arb button is also responsible for the translation of $1001.00 knife. and the kama sutra. another englishman, edward fitzgerald, took the poetry of persian polymath on that i am and transformed it beyond recognition on its way into the youngest fair fair this power dynamic where the, the western are basically feels as if they own us. and in a way they, they really did owners and our country's kind of became a playground for these wester is kind of run around in and finding manuscripts and find tags. and they don't feel a responsibility to treat them fairly. or they don't see the culture that they're coming from as equal to them. and this is especially the case with fitzgerald, who translated high young. he did say, it amuses me to take what liberties are likely these persians who really do need a little art to shape them. and that has been seen as one of the, in a sense, most offensive of the old, colonial statements about translation. but