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Tolstoy. Who Else?

17-Mar-10

“Go round the shops in any big town.  There are goods worth millions and you cannot estimate the human labor expended on them, and look whether in nine-tenths of these shops there is anything for the use of men.  All the luxuries of life are demanded and maintained by women. “Count all the factories.  An […]

The Last Station.

17-Mar-10

Tolstoy is a figure I have always kept at arm’s length; beyond reading Anna Karenina (easily the greatest novel ever written; really no other deserves to be put in the same paragraph with it; I hated it) and the most famous short stories, I have mostly avoided him.  That he was full of hatred and […]