На днях вспомнил еще один отрывок из "2666" Боланьо. Вспомнил я его в интерпретации "хороший стул приносит счастье", так мне запомнилось почему-то. Но, оказывается, не счастье, а "inner peace". Мне кажется, вариант про небольшое счастье тоже правильный. Так что желаю всем счастья.
For all that, she was at peace with the world, since even though she hadn't studied to become a schoolteacher, which was her dream, now she was an herbalist and, in the view of some, a seer, and many people were grateful to her for a few little things she had done for them, nothing important, bits of advice, small suggestions, like for example recommending that they incorporate vegetable fiber into their diets, vegetable fiber isn't food for human beings, in other words our digestive system can't break it down and absorb it, but it helps us go to the toilet, or make number two or, begging the pardon of Reinaldo and this distinguished audience, defecate. Only the digestive system of herbivorous animals, said Florita, is equipped with substances capable of digesting cellulose and therefore of absorbing the glucose molecules that make up cellulose. Vegetable fiber is the name we give to cellulose and other similar substances. The consumption of vegetable fiber, even though it doesn't provide us with usable energy-producing elements, is beneficial. When it isn't absorbed, the fiber causes the bolus, in its passage through the digestive tract, to retain its volume. And that causes pressure to be generated inside the intestine, which stimulates intestinal activity, assuring the easy passage of waste through the whole digestive tract. Diarrhea is hardly ever a good thing, but going to the bathroom once or twice a day brings serenity and balance, a kind of inner peace. Not great inner peace, why exaggerate, but a small and shining inner peace.Тем временем, моя запись про шпагат, вернее, про проблемы со шпагатом, аж в какой-то топ попала. Я говорю "в какой-то" не из неуважения к топу -- я его очень уважаю -- а потому, что я не знаю, сколько их сейчас есть, кто там настоящий и главный... примерно как с академиями наук.