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I‘m so in love with the two novellas in the “Monk and Robot” series by Becky Chambers and I wish I could live in that world.

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@Jens Ohlig Oh, I see: The german translation. I've read the english edition. But now I got curious and quickly fetched a german copy. Unfortunately, it is disappointing. They use "Teemönch" without any modification. Furthermore, they use ser/sihm/sir pronouns, which altogether colors the while thing very male.

I even dislike the title: "Ein Psalm für die wild Schweifenden". There's nothing of "wild-built" in it. For me it's plain wrong.

A quote from the german editon. "Ein Psalm für die wild Schweifenden" "Aber was machte das schon? Wenn man den Chats Glauben schenkte, war Dex der beste Teemönch auf Panga. Ser hielt zwar nichts von solchen Übertreibungen, und sire Tätigkeit hatte sicher nichts mit einem Wettstreit zu tun. Aber sir Tee war gut, das wusste ser. Ser hatte hart gearbeitet. Ser hatte alles gegeben. Wo immer ser hinkam, lächelten die Leute, und Dex wusste, dass es sire Arbeit – sire Arbeit! – war, die sie zum Lächeln brachte. Ser spendete den Menschen Freude. Ser machte sie glücklicher. Das war doch großartig, wenn ser es recht bedachte. Es hätte sihm genug sein müssen. Es hätte sihm mehr als genug sein müssen. Aber wenn ser ganz ehrlich war, freute ser sich mittlerweile nicht mehr am meisten auf das Lächeln, die Geschenke oder das Gefühl, gute Arbeit geleistet zu haben, sondern auf das, was danach kam – den Moment, in dem ser in siren Wagen zurückkehrte, hinter sich abschloss und ein paar kostbare, unverplante Stunden allein verbrachte. Warum war sihm das nicht genug?“
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@Jens Ohlig I love the books, I love the characters, I love the world and all the thoughts and concepts Becky Chambers has put into them. I even copied some ideas for gatherings. But!

As much as I'd like to go there and to live and learn from time to time, in the end I'd struggle with the same issues Dex does. This world is cyclic but also limited. Almost closed. The basic dogma seems to be "You have what you need. Be satisfied with it. There is nothing more, nothing beyond". There is art and beauty, but no excitement, no adventure, almost no Wow!-moments. In the long run, I'd get depressive or die from dopamine deficiency.

I agree with Mosscap: Life has no more meaning than you put into it yourself. But if you are longing for new experiences, exploration, discovery, "more", Panga seems to be too limited.

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