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Writing a novel...

... is no easy thing. Do you remember when I wrote on this blog I would go for an April's challenge to write a novel in one month? Well, it miserably failed.

I know what you might be thinking: failure of a 30 days challenge is for losers, and I might also second that, but it's not the case. Disregarding the natural need for sleep and fun, I realized that I needed more time to write the novel, especially because, being a perfectionist, I'd like it to be decent.

The result is that... my April's challenge has become an April's-May challenge, hopefully improving the quality of the work I am doing. Phew... it's hard to be a novelist and a blogger at the same time ;)

The cheese formulation

It's been a while I wanted to post on the blog but many things have kept me from doing so: work, my April challenge and Netflix.

I am not going to talk about work, neither my April's challenge or Netflix offer, but I am going to write about a firm believe I cherish since long time: the cheese formulation.

The cheese formulation can be defined as it follows:

People who don't like cheese cannot be fully trusted.

I know this sounds like a pretty harsh statement and hardly scientific or democratic, but yes, this is my thought and another rule by which I too simply split the world in two. Why so? some of you may ask. I really don't have an answer but here is why I believe that people who don't like cheese cannot be fully trusted. 

Cheese is awesome and French people know it as you can see from the chart on the left. It makes our bones stronger, makes us happier and brings taste to life. Mild or strong, cow or goat, fresh or seasoned, there is cheese for all tastes. So, what's up with people who don't like cheese? In my life I met only a handful of people who wouldn't like cheese and the discovery always struck me with surprise as cheese has always been a universal value, a common talking point for people and culture to build upon. I see cheese as a universal value for peace and understanding: yes, this is an ode to cheese that goes far beyond what I was planning to write in the first place. Ultimately people who don't know how enjoy the gifts the world of nature and human work has given us are incomplete and therefore I look at them as they were aliens, not to be trusted in a world that loves cheese.