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Narayoni

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I am a Ph.D in Chemistry and a book lover who also loves cats, dogs and animals in general. I am interested besides in general science, technology, astronomy, ancient history, economics, finance, medicine etc.

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Rincewind's in love.....
....And so is the Luggage đŸ€ŁđŸ€Ł

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"‘Not you, too?’ he said. Possibly it was only the play of sunlight on the Luggage’s battered lid, but it was just possible that for an instant it looked redder than usual. Of course, sapient pearwood has this sort of weird mental link with its owner . . . Rincewind shook his head. Still, it’d explain why the thing wasn’t its normal malignant self. ‘It’d never work,’ he said. ‘I mean, she’s a female and you’re a, well, you’re a—’ He paused. ‘Well, whatever you are, you’re of the wooden persuasion. It’d never work. People would talk.’" 2/2--from Sourcery by Terry Pratchett.

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And that's the Luggage for you! One of the many entertaining characters from the Discworld series đŸ€Ł

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Indeed, totally agree with Death on this point!

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Granny's problem with healthy teeth leading to a lack of “real crone-credibility”, and a general absence of warts đŸ€ŁđŸ€Ł
[Headology!]

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Headology:

“That’s right,” said Granny. “It’s called headology.” She tapped her silver hair, which was drawn into a tight bun that could crack rocks.

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The need to care; the Essence of Death:

From Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett

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"LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?"--from Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.

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Life and death

From Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett

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Perspective:

From Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett

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The Wizards in a nutshell!

From Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.

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Time to murder some cheese!

From Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.

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The meaning of being alive:
(Courtesy Death)

From Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett

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A metaphor on evolution, survival and life:

From Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett

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Introducing "Mrs. Evadne Cake... a medium, verging on small."

From Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett

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@seth73 @bookstodon Oh yes, absolutely!

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That's an apt play on words! Poor Windle!

From Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.

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On the "cultivation" of happiness.

From Villette by Charlotte Bronte.
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Ah yes, written while dealing with the boredom of waiting for the ferry đŸ€Ł

(from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams)

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Indeed what are we to do with man?! đŸ€ŠđŸŒâ€â™€ïž

(from Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, P&V translation)

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An anatomy of gossip... đŸ€Ł

(from Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol)

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A bunch of highly talented musicians indeed đŸ€Ł

From Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

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Mr Cthulhu is being interviewed for the position of “Resident God”: đŸ€Ł

(from And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series)

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This is making me laugh so much đŸ€Ł
Chichikov thought to take advantage of Nozdryov, but he's giving him a hard time instead.

(from Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, P&V translation).

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They are so hilarious! Just started with Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol and I'm loving Gogol's humorous writing style đŸ€Ł

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@pivic @bookstodon I am actually reading the P&V translation. I had heard this critique about their translation being too literal, thus making the English sound weird. Now I don’t know Russian, and I am not a native English speaker. So I cannot really give an informed opinion of their translation. However, I have read and enjoyed their translations of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Master And Margarita and more. I don't remember finding their English to be clunky or... 1/2

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@pivic @bookstodon or weird sounding, or hard to understand. I have found that I prefer their translation over some others that I have tried. I think since I unfortunately can't read in the original language, I better read a translation that is at least accurate and also enjoyable. However, which English translation would you suggest?

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Mort is a funny, heartwarming introduction to Death, one of the major Discworld characters. It starts off with Death deciding to take on an apprentice, Mort. Turns out, Death loves curry, has an adopted daughter, Ysabell, and gets REALLY UPSET and VERY ANGRY indeed when people harm or kill cats and kittens. And he rides a horse who is most adorably named Binky.
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@trif @bookstodon @bookstadon when I first read the series, I read in publication order and it was after reading Mort that I really got invested in the series.

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Truth is that there is always some form of repression, or enforced conformity exercised by people with power over those under their control
.because their way is the only way and anything else is intolerable. And to break out of this would entail a lot of pain and a whole lot of courage.
(from Mort by Terry Pratchett)

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Death is this unexpectedly sweet and sad character that I want to befriend, take care of, and assure him that everything will be alright and that we all love him.
Death is one of my favourite discworld characters ❀

(quotes from Mort by Terry Pratchett)

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2/2 "‘Look, I can’t see why you’re so worried. I expect he’s just got held up somewhere,’ said Mort, but it sounded feeble even to him. It wasn’t as though people buttonholed Death to tell him another story, or clapped him on the back and said things like ‘You’ve got time for a quick half in there, my old mate, no need to rush off home’ or invited him to make up a skittles team and come out for a Klatchian take-away afterwards, or . . . It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen."--from Mort by Terry Pratchett.

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@Malachite @bookstodon @bookstadon yes, I love that too â˜ș

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@n0madz @bookstodon me too! When I first read the series I read it in chronological order and read Mort was when I really got invested in the series. Besides Death I also enjoy reading about Vimes, Granny, Nanny, Carrot, Moist and even the Patrician. If this is your first time, I hope you enjoy the series and have a great time!

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History is simply resilient....

(from Mort by Terry Pratchett, Discworld series)
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So true, Death. There's no cosmic justice, karma, or even any logic behind the “WHY”, even though it might be a bit reassuring to think along those lines.
(quotation from Mort by Terry Pratchett)

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@actuallyautistic
.. they pay more attention to detail. They feel more overwhelmed by too much stimulus, but they simultaneously hyperfocus for long periods of time. They also tend to be quiet introverts. And they’re more vulnerable to anxiety and depression... this article is not talking autism though, but calls it "sentinel intelligence". And connects it into how people deal with the hypercrisis of the world. https://www.okdoomer.io/youre-not-a-fearmonger-you-have-sentinel-intelligence/

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@samid @actuallyautistic this was a very interesting read. I can identify with being "chronically hypervigilant". It's bloody exhausting! As opposed to what's in the article, I generally keep my warnings to myself because I know that people who are convinced they are right would never listen to me. Most people only want to listen to what they want to hear. This is sometimes quite upsetting really.

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Binky's an adorable name for DEATH’s horse. And “Dethe thee Great Levyller Comes To Alle Menne” on a horse called Binky is just hilarious!
(from Mort by Terry Pratchett)

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I, too like Mort a lot and DEATH is one of my favourite Discworld characters!

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That's some interesting curry appreciation and metaphor from DEATH

(quotation from Mort by Terry Pratchett)
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"‘What’s a curry?’ The blue fires flared deep in the eyes of Death. HAVE YOU EVER BITTEN A RED-HOT ICE CUBE? ‘No, sir,’ said Mort. CURRY’S LIKE THAT."--from Mort by Terry Pratchett (Discworld series)

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Regular people problems đŸ€Ł

From Mort by Terry Pratchett (Discworld series)

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Death.... the ultimate redeemer

(quotation from The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, P&V translation)

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Oh yes, Behemoth, I agree with you on this; the cat is indeed an ancient and inviolable animal!
(from The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov)

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The devil and his entourage have certainly left the Soviet investigators in a tizzy!

(A quotation from The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, P&V translation)

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Oh for a dog's love... 😍

(a quotation from The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, P&V translation)

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I am with the Devil (Mr Woland) on this. Manuscripts don't burn
Art cannot be destroyed. It will live on as long as humanity lives on. Those trying to erase an idea/any form of art through censorship are engaging in a futile attempt. The existence of this book itself is a testament of this fact.

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So Behemoth (the cat) has some really cogent arguments and demands!

(Quotations from The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov)

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"Sit down at once and stop slinging this verbal muck.’ ‘I shall sit down,’ replied the cat, sitting down, ‘but I shall enter an objection with regard to your last. My speeches in no way resemble verbal muck, as you have been pleased to put it in the presence of a lady, but rather a sequence of tightly packed syllogisms, the merit of which would be appreciated by such connoisseurs as Sextus Empiricus, Martianus Capella, and, for all I know, Aristotle himself.’"--A quotation from The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.

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I'm sad 😔.... Because of how it ends and because it is the end

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@tbweber @bookstodon @bookstadon I will be starting on And Another Thing if only just because this ending is so sad... I remember vaguely (it's been a while) that I had found the book to be not bad, but I did miss Adam's writing. At least reading that book would probably at least make me feel better than I felt while finishing Mostly Harmless. I wish there were more Hitchhiker's books by Douglas Adams.

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The "biscuit" joke from So Long and Thanks for all the Fish by Douglas Adams is now one of my favourite jokes from the series

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2/3 "‘I went into the breach again. I took,’ said Arthur, ‘another biscuit. And for an instant our eyes met.’ ‘Like this?’ ‘Yes, well, no, not quite like that. But they met. Just for an instant. And we both looked away. But I am here to tell you,’ said Arthur, ‘that there was a little electricity in the air. There was a little tension building up over the table. At about this time.’ ‘I can imagine.’ ‘We went through the whole packet like this. Him, me, him, me . . .’"
3/3 "‘There is that. So. When the empty packet was lying dead between us the man at last got up, having done his worst, and left. I heaved a sigh of relief, of course. As it happened, my train was announced a moment or two later, so I finished my coffee, stood up, picked up the newspaper, and underneath the newspaper . . .’ ‘Yes?’ ‘Were my biscuits.’ ‘What?’ said Fenchurch. ‘What?’ ‘True.’"--extracts from So Long and Thanks for all the Fish by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series).

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"Parenting advice" from by
(The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series)

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