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Well done...
Isn't that pretty much all Russian poetry and literature is about? Bleakness, death, despair, famine, the joys of serfdom...
Stephen Franklin: It's all so brief, isn't it? Typical human lifespan is almost a hundred years, but it's barely a second compared to what's out there. It wouldn't be so bad if life didn't take so long to figure out. Seems you just start to get it right and then...it's over.
Ivanova: Doesn't matter. If we lived 200 years we'd still be human, we'd still make the same mistakes.
Franklin: You're a pessimist.
Ivanova: I'm Russian, doctor. We understand these things.
Oof, there's way too much bitter irony in using Babylon 5 for quotes about the fleeting nature of life.
