1969 में मैं दस साल का था, और उस साल हम एरिज़ोना में रहते थे। गर्मियों की छुट्टियों का ज्यादातर समय मैंने पोर्टलैंड, ओरेगन में पारिवारिक मित्रों के साथ बिताया जबकि मेरे माता-पिता स्पेन घूमने गए थे। वह अपने आप में एक पूरा रोमांचक सफर था।

I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.

I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.

Topic Life & Existence Childhood
Tone: Nostalgic Sentiment: Positive Type: Reflection 95%

व्यक्तिगत रूप से, मुझे यह बात हमेशा बड़ी दिलचस्प लगती है कि जब सांस्कृतिक रूढ़िवादी लोग, जो मुक्त बाजार (Free Market) के प्रति अपनी निष्ठा का ढिंढोरा पीटने में सबसे आगे रहते हैं, उसी बाजार में अपनी नापसंद के किसी उत्पाद की सफलता पर बिफर पड़ते हैं।

Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove.

Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove.

Topic Achievement & Work Business
Tone: Sarcastic Sentiment: Mixed Type: Observation 92%

बहुत से लोगों के स्कूली जीवन का अनुभव कम से कम एक बार ऐसा जरूर रहा होगा जहाँ उन्हें नीची नजरों से देखा गया क्योंकि उन्हें उच्च आधुनिकतावाद (High Modernism) के किसी अजीबोगरीब सिद्धांत से कोई खास लगाव नहीं था, और उन्होंने इससे यह निष्कर्ष निकाल लिया कि साहित्य का मतलब ही ऐसी जटिल और उबाऊ चीज़ें हैं जो उन्हें पसंद नहीं हैं। वो कमबख्त हेमिंग्वे अपनी अजीबोगरीब मुक्त छंद (free verse) कविता के साथ।

So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don't like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.

So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don't like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.

Topic Knowledge & Learning Education
Tone: Sarcastic Sentiment: Negative Type: Observation 95%

क्या हमें वाकई सिर्फ इसलिए माफी मांगते फिरना चाहिए कि हमें कहानी का प्लॉट पसंद आया, सिर्फ इसलिए क्योंकि जेम्स वुड और कुछ अन्य कट्टर समीक्षकों ने इस पर नाक भौंह सिकोड़ी है? यह वैसा ही है जैसे आप शावर में पॉप गाने गाने से इसलिए बचें क्योंकि आपके इलाके के किसी अखबार का कोई संगीत समीक्षक इसे घटिया मानता हो।

Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.

Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.

Tone: Defiant Sentiment: Mixed Type: Question 95%

पुस्तकों का प्रकाशन कभी ऐसा स्वर्ग नहीं था जिसे 'संपादक चलाते हों', और आज यह ऐसा नर्क भी बिल्कुल नहीं है जिसे 'अकाउंटेंट चलाते हों'। अगर हमारा 'मात्र उद्देश्य' 'तत्काल मुनाफा कमाना' होता, तो न केवल हम वे तमाम काम कभी न करते जो हम रोजाना करते हैं, बल्कि शायद हम इस पब्लिशिंग बिजनेस में होते ही नहीं।

Book publishing was never a heaven "run by editors", and it is by no means today a hell "run by accountants." If our "sole interest" was "instant profit," not only would we never do any number of the things we actually do every day, we probably wouldn't be in book publishing at all.

Book publishing was never a heaven "run by editors", and it is by no means today a hell "run by accountants." If our "sole interest" was "instant profit," not only would we never do any number of the things we actually do every day, we probably wouldn't be in book publishing at all.

Topic Achievement & Work Business
Sentiment: Mixed Type: Observation 95%

ई-बुक्स को पढ़ने में होने वाली थोड़ी बहुत असुविधा उनकी खोज करने की क्षमता और डिजिटल टेक्स्ट की आसानी से बदलने योग्य खूबी से पूरी हो जाती है।

The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.

The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.

Topic Knowledge & Learning Reading
Themes #Contrast
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Observation 95%

साल 2008 में जब हम पहली बार Tor.com को लॉन्च करने की तैयारी कर रहे थे, तभी मैं समझ गया था कि मैं जो वॉल्टन को इस साइट के लिए नियमित रूप से लिखना देखना चाहता हूँ।

Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.

Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.

Topic Creativity & Expression Writing
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Reflection 95%

मुझे गूगल रीडर इस्तेमाल करने की बुरी लत है। मुझे लगता है कि लोग गल्प यानी फिक्शन गढ़ने के लिए ब्लॉग और ट्विटर का इस्तेमाल करेंगे।

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.

Topic Knowledge & Learning Reading
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Neutral Type: Observation 95%