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t is a novel by Victor Pelevin first published in 2009. [1] [2] [3]The novel recounts the journey of the martial arts master Count T. (a reference to Leo Tolstoy), who escapes from his home persecuted by the tsarist police and makes his way to the Optina Monastery, which in the context of this novel takes on the features not of the famous monastery of Orthodoxy, but of some Shambhala, or some ...
Jack of all trades, master of none" is a figure of speech used in reference to a person who has dabbled in many skills, rather than gaining expertise by focusing on only one. The original version, " a jack of all trades ", is often used as a compliment for a person who is good at fixing things and has a good level of broad knowledge.
It came to him that [science fiction] is indeed ninety-percent crud, but that also – Eureka! – ninety-percent of everything is crud. All things – cars, books, cheeses, hairstyles, people, and pins are, to the expert and discerning eye, crud, except for the acceptable tithe which we each happen to like.
Omnia mutantur is a Latin phrase meaning "everything changes". It is most often used as part of two other phrases: It is most often used as part of two other phrases: Omnia mutantur, nihil interit ("everything changes, nothing perishes"), by Ovid in his Metamorphoses , and
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It doesn't make that much difference, as neither version is a very literal translation of the Italian original, which would be, I believe, something like "if we want everything to remain the same, everything must change". The repetition of "tutto" makes the original stronger than either English version. The safe way would be to stick to the ...
There was a custom at the Seversky Pipe Plant of making the workers change their duties very often. For example, a person who worked with an axe "today", "was sent to the iron-smelting plant tomorrow", and so on. Thus, a workman during all his life tried everything and excelled in nothing.
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