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He must see the irony in how he wished to edit out all the “boring” parts from Homer, Dostoyevsky, and Mann to make them easier and more accessible with the Nazi’s hammer of censorship.
Daily Archives: March 22, 2016
67% done with The World of Yesterday
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He blames the years of inflation that humiliated the Germans and is what drove them to Hitler.
65% done with The World of Yesterday
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You could almost write an entire book based on the boys who found the forgotten case of soap and, selling one cake a day, lived like kings while their once wealthy patents crept about like beggars.
75% done with War and Peace
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“Where has he gone? Where is he now?…” the line is not attributed to anyone, either Maria or Natasha. I assume it’s Natasha, but I think it’s a question the author is asking us to explore. All of us will, like the old Count, soon make that final step and so being able to answer that question to our satisfaction is something we should all try to discover.
75% done with War and Peace
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Andrei’s situation raises an issue I’ve been grappling with throughout the novel: it’s an issue of Tolstoy’s beliefs. If we were to live only for the next life, then what point is it to live now? There would be no joy in living, no love while alive. And if we don’t care about life now, what value has it, for us or for others? Don’t we have to sin to be good? Shouldn’t we be more like Pierre and Natasha?