"It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not."

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Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like it when it enables you to do fairly radical reinterpretations of human experience, just to show all the different interpretations that can be put on apparently fairly simple and commonplace events. That I find fun.

— Douglas Adams