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Many people reach a point where they realize that the shape their life has taken does not square with the ambitions they once had for it.
“Where lions aren’t hunted, they aren’t dangerous. As for us, we live in peace with them.”
“In that sort of situation, you only have one choice,” West said later. “It’s live or die. Most people are too scared to think about living.”
Nowadays, in many parts of the world—not just Sobolonye—it is possible to starve while watching television.
In the West, a certain level of psychological awareness—and the language to go with it—is taken for granted now, but in Russia, with the exception of some in urban, educated circles, this is virtually nonexistent. Stoicism isn’t so much a virtue as it is a survival skill.
The brandname Viagra is derived from vyaaghra, the Sanskrit word for tiger.
