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Mai passata più velocemente alla versione in inglese in vita mia, ma chi l'ha tradotto questo libro? "No wonder that" tradotto con "Nessuna meraviglia che"? Invece di "Non c'è da stupirsi se"? Ma perché? Ma ce l'ha almeno un b1 in inglese il traduttore? O accesso a google translate, almeno, che per quanto faccia schifo, persino lui traduce meglio? Mamma mia...

Can't believe the people who broke his car because he "broke a strike" that would have caused dozens of patients to die. Can't believe people can be so egoistical, idiotic and frankly, inhumane.

I knew that Sacks's mother wasn't exactly normal, when in the first memoir he described her as someone who killed malformed babies without telling the parents and then brought said dead babies home to dissect them, so it was no surprise when it's revealed she's a raging homophobe, ready to discard a "defective" son as soon as she discovered they were homosexual, or disabled. Some disgustin people shouldn't have kids.

69 “I really don’t mind very much what Lady Smythe says about
me,” said Lucy. “I don’t mind what any one says about me,” she
went on recklessly, “because most gossip is only the evil in
people’s own minds coming to the surface.”

very good quote!

Does this book ever end...?