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D.M. Busek
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Proper Breathing
I (loosely, as required by its setting) translated my own book into English. It can be read on AO3 (https://archiveofourown.org/works/443...). It's almost a different book - the story is the same, but the narative had to be adjusted, now that the protagonist is retelling her story in English. Also, some names were changed, for their own good.
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"Every so often I am lucky enough to come across something that reminds me of how beautiful the diversity of the human experience is. For example, some people love this book."
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"Andy Weir cannot write and I'm tired of people pretending he can.
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"I thought I was getting an unbiased look at the breed, but got a defense of it instead.
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| The idea was neat, and the execution was fine, and some of the details were indeed in the vein of "you had to be there", i.e. quite exquisite. However: Whereas the typical lightheaded tone of a travel guide fits very well when it sends you to Woodsto ...more | |
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| süß, goldig und putzig - ja, ein bisschen zu zuckersüß, aber bei so vielen Katzen ist alles vergeben. | |
“One can't have everything. (подумав) I had everything. (подумав еще и повеселев) I still have everything. Пойдемте, Иосиф Михалыч, бензин кончается.”
― Правильное дыхание
― Правильное дыхание
“The respectable family that supports worthless relatives or covers up their crimes in order to "protect the family name"(as if the moral stature of one man could be damaged by the actions of another)
-the bum who boasts that his great-grandfather was an empire-builder, or the small-town spinster who boasts that her maternal great-uncle was a state senator and her third cousin gave a concert at carnegie hall (as if the achievement of one man could rub off on the mediocrity of another)
-the parents who search geneological trees in order to evaluate their prospective son-in-law.
-the celebrity who starts his autobiography with a detailed account of his family history
-All these are samples of racism.”
― The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
-the bum who boasts that his great-grandfather was an empire-builder, or the small-town spinster who boasts that her maternal great-uncle was a state senator and her third cousin gave a concert at carnegie hall (as if the achievement of one man could rub off on the mediocrity of another)
-the parents who search geneological trees in order to evaluate their prospective son-in-law.
-the celebrity who starts his autobiography with a detailed account of his family history
-All these are samples of racism.”
― The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
