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"The most distant mountains, like himself, just stood there and gazed."
Sten NadolnyHe now understood navigation. He had started with Gowers Treatise on t — Sten Nadolny
"He now understood navigation. He had started with Gowers Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Navigation. ...The book itself was the ocean; when he closed it he could cover up deep water. He had read Moores Practical Navigator and had tried Euclid. He found arithmetic easy, because nobody pushed him."
Sten Nadolny
Sten Nadolny
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Sten Nadolny is a German novelist. His parents, Burkhard and Isabella Nadolny, were also writers.
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"Es gibt zwei Sorten von Männern. Die einen verstehen etwas von Frauen, die anderen sind solche, die einfach Frauen verstehen."
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"The game went on. John had understood nothing. Everything was too fast: the game, the others talk, the goings-on in the street..."
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"Someday hed be quicker... to be like the sun, which only seems to wander slowly across the sky, yet whose rays are as quick as the blink of an eye. ...they reach in one instant the most distant mountains."
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"Large animals, John thought, move more slowly than mice and wasps. Perhaps he was secretly a giant."
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"How did Tom get there? Again, a piece of time had dropped out."
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