alexpgp | A fine paragraph...

This time, it's something I translated... :^)

Besides an unfortunate tendency to write in sentence fragments. And engage in parallel constructions that seem excessive to my ear. The author has this maddening trait of saying stuff that makes a lot of sense to me, interspersed with other stuff that sounds pretty silly. The following is some of the former:

Life is what always happens athwart of rationally constructed plans. The strange effect of the "other room" always takes place in life ("he walked into a room and ended up in another," as was said by a certain heroine in Griboedov's play). Life is least of all a school textbook in which everything is laid out in its assigned place. All of life consists of very random twists and turns.

And it all hangs together, except for that reference to that "other room." (Or am I being too critical?)

As for the rest, I'm happy I was finally able to use "athwart" in a sentence.

Cheers...