translation, he worked in a publishing house, so he offered me which i did, there was a book by john steinbeck, a little, not a little, yes, well, you know, a very simple language, it was just such a pleasure, after steinbeck came john lu core, this was excruciating, because it seemed to me that he was inventing some words that... you had to guess, they were not in the dictionaries, so it was all by intuitively, it was an insanely painful job, but i translated 13 books, as i remember now, and quite a few, well yes, from summerset moym, summerset moym, yes, but the first one i started with was sidney sheldon, if you remember him, comrade, i myself simply decided to translate him, one of his novels, it was, in my opinion, if tomorrow comes, i translated, brought it to the publisher, they told me that the soviet reader cannot be interested in such waste paper, they left this manuscript. at the publishing house, it seems, they threw it out, and after some time ago i saw that it came out in my translation under a different name, it's a wonderful story, what a horror, i didn't know that, well it was

john steinbeck's dog and travels with charlie. right. so there was a of echoes of that working here. i were there other models that you took as a writer just to refer for yourself what you wanted the book to look like and shape that would take. i don't know that there was another model for i definitely did try to read some of the i mean the america the genre of road travel the travelog books and books from kerouac to, mark twain and william list, heat, moon and tony horwitz. i mean, there's so many great books out there, you know, exploring the country. so i dove into them. i'm not sure i took anyone as a particular model, but tried to draw from all of their spirit, which is to kind of use the the adventure as an opportunity for exploration. yeah. so the pandemic was raging pretty much right when you left george was murdered while you were on the road. it could before. so we left on september. so. that's right. it was. and george floyd was let me so but but all of that was in the background and there were still protests going on in our i