Back at It

Frankly, the story of Hadji Murad deterred me from my tireless study of Tolstoy.

But now I'm back at it. I've read tirelessly today. But now I'm getting tired, so I don't know how much more reading I'll do.

This post is a break from my reading his story 'Fedor Kuzmich.' It is the story of Alexander I, who fakes his own death to live as a hermit. A little more than half way through the story Alex says, "He prized what ruined both him and me physically and spiritually-and I, unfortunate that I was, also prized it!'

Oh, how very seriously Lev takes things! I wish I could get concern about spiritual destruction into the mouth of my characters.

But no. I am unable to do more than tell booger joke.

For that matter, I can't even get a round figure. Just lists and wordfinds.