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A Fish and an Ichtheologist
In 19 forty nine, notwithstanding all the awards and insane things that have happened to him so far, he becomes branded as anti patriotic. And then in 19 forty five, his only son, nikita, is killed on the eastern front at age one in the second world war. His life is actually even crazier than that, if you can believe it. The affair that he had in berlin was this really torrid, insane, long running thing where he was going back and forth. And he kept writing, even while he was fighting, while he was sick in hospital,. While he was dying, he was writing, writing, writing. He wrote a biography of tolst