I completely understand and it took me three tries to get through the first few episodes… and then the biggest shock is that you end up partly understanding and feel these horrible people. At times, you may even root for some of them. It’s definitely taxing for most of us but that’s what makes it a great show.

Country artists. Even Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash are unknown to most of Europe.

Sorry, by documented, I mean that François Bourgeon did a lot of medieval and artistic research to produce those books (as always). But you are correct, his work is also analyzed by scholars and teachers, first among them is Michel Thiébaut with “Dans le sillage des sirènes”.

We also have a similar wording “Le tout est plus que la somme de ses parties.”. We usually attribute this saying to Aristotle (with some variations)

It has always been the very best 80s Bande Dessinée to me and I have read it countless times, starting from my late teens. It is highly documented and still utterly poetic, philosophical and theatrical. It’s simply better than most of Shakespeare’s work. There, I’ve said it.

I would not dare read it in any other language than french however. Every word matters, every picture makes sense, usually at multiple levels of emotion or understanding.

You can endlessly re-read this serie, just mentally choosing who is the main character each time, and your perception of the world will change. And then you blend it all again and it’s vertiginous.

| There isn’t really a reason why the spelling is different. That’s just how it happened to develop.

There absolutely is a reason for each of your examples, and again, it comes from French : peuple simple modèle ovale

Less developed countries who need their bandwidth more than you or countries at war… so not really a good idea after all.

Quantum! don’t forget quantum, you filthy peasant.

They could and they will.

Are you me? Also I almost fainted during the first piss after the JJ removal.

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I can trigger a few seconds vertigo attack when I lie down. If I do not think about it when going to bed, everything is fine. But if I think about it, then it invariably comes.

Yes, rounding can do that sometimes.