Walk in the Light Con't.

With my brand new translation of War and Peace sitting on my desk, I really want to finish up these short stories. Anna Karenina was written after War and Peace, so it would totally make sense that I reread War and Peace.

Of course, before actually rereading war and peace, I'd like to rewatch the BBC 13 hour series. First rate. Anthony Hopkins is in it. Its 13 hours long. Its made by the BBC.

I think watching it as a marathon would be a great idea. You can come over and we'll watch and we'll be smarter. Just to be really pretentious we can watch it on superbowl sunday.

One of the fascinating aspects of the Walk in the Light Story is Tolstoy's belief that we can see society's basic problems as never being solved because we use society's methods to try and stop them. Someone said that Society is where we accept other people so we may be accepted. I think for Tolstoy, when someone deviates from society, society's only weapon is to kick them out, or lower their status.

But Tolstoy suggests there is an alternative. Treat everyone like family.

Its like he tries to reverse the oedipal complex. To show that the basically problem is that we don’t want to treat everyone as sister and mother.

Tolstoy seems to think that the Ideal Political Family is emboddied by the Olive Garden. When you are here you are family.