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Auch ich bin unversehens zu einem Menschen des 21. Jahrhunderts geworden, doch ich schreibe Bücher, in denen Papierbriefe geschrieben (und gemailt) werden, Bücher, in denen das modernste benutzte Kommunikationsmittel (hin und wieder) das Telefon ist, das zufällig eine Erfindung des 19. Jahrhunderts darstellt.
I too have, willy-nilly, become a twenty-first-century person, yet I write books in which people write (and mail) paper letters, books in which the most up-to-date means of communication employed is (now and again) the telephone, which happens to be a nineteenth-century invention.
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