Andrei Sinyavsky

I think it was written in 1959, but not able to be published until 1966, but in English and in Germany because Soviet Union.

But this short story called Pint by Abram Tertz, which was just retranslated while we were working on the last book by Ainsley Morse in North Carolina.

And so we drew a bunch of the tone from, you know, 'cause that story's about an alien who's crash landed on earth and can't talk to any of his species, trying to, like, explain what it's like looking at humanity to him.

So the narrator is deciding what deserves to survive and be passed down in this sort of capsule diary.