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Beyond Pesticide and Technokol Rapid (How does a prose writer collect information?)

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Beyond Pesticide and Technokol Rapid (How does a prose writer collect information?)

Tibor Noé Kiss

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Author: Tibor Noé Kiss
Translator: Austin Wagner
July 2023

High literature sometimes seems a saintly pursuit, and is associated with such concepts as inspiration and rapture. In spite of this, a significant part of the work – at least in the case of a novel – is grunt work. When writing, we spend most of our time incessantly researching online, fishing about amongst the news, gathering essential information. Our narrator plants seeds in the garden in April, but what kind of seeds can you sow in April? Chard, for example, it was always difficult to find in the market hall. Let’s take a look at the types of chard: Lucullus has white stalks, Rhubarb red. Grüner Schnitt, that sounds great, it’ll be good for something someday. If the climate is extremely dry, we need to keep the earth loose by