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2020-02-02 Science & Technology

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-02 02:38|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 No, this is how we become acquainted with the truth of our lives. As Prince Andrei realizes upon seeing Natasha, come to give him comfort, knitting stockings quietly next to him while he lies, dying - Garnett translation:

"Can it or can it not be?" he now thought as he looked at her and listened to the light click of the steel needles. "Can fate have brought me to her so strangely only for me to die?... Is it possible that the truth of life has been revealed to me only to show me that I have spent my life in falsity?

Posted by Lex 2020-02-02 08:25|| 2020-02-02 08:25|| Front Page Top

#2 An impressive literary reference, Lex. Now do Pushkin.

Posted by Lex 2020-02-02 09:30|| 2020-02-02 09:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Sorry, Lex. That was me. More coffee needed.

Posted by Matt 2020-02-02 10:15|| 2020-02-02 10:15|| Front Page Top

#4 See behavior change in global mobility, ethnic clustering and diet.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-02 11:28|| 2020-02-02 11:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Brazil might have some trouble with it: consider that carnival is just around the corner.

Posted by 3dc 2020-02-02 13:25|| 2020-02-02 13:25|| Front Page Top

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