Thank you. Honestly, a lot of things had to come together for me to be able to do this; I had a month long vacation, my wife is at home and took care for the kid (who is also in the kindergarten, further unloading me) more in order for me to be able to recuperate a bit, etc. this is definitely not normal and something I can just do typically.
Demons is a great book. But reading Dostoyevsky a lot lately made me realize just how fewer words there are in English and how much is lost in the translation, compared to archaic slavic languages, Russian being one and Slovenian even more so, or actually the most of all slavic languages. You also do not get the benefit of duality (in addition to single and plural), as well as the language is gender neutral. I have to say I actually prefer reading him in my native language, as too much is lost in the translation otherwise, but the books are extremely costly as a typical print will consist of less than 1000 copies worldwide, since we're such a tiny nation.
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