Tolstoy in Our Time
A Point of View
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The First Paragraph of War and Peace
With each new twist of puton's war against the people of ukraine, we, or at least the pundet class ver interpreted the text. The entire first paragraph of war and peace consists of a speech from the aristocratic anna pavlona sherer describing the french dictator napoleon as the antichrist himself. But it is written in the russian original, in french, not withanan as she said, in french. So two cheers for the liberal rats. Once again, if the invasion drag on,. the sheer brutality and doggedness of russia may conceivably give them, once again, the upper hand. And doubtless, this oscillation in the narrative will
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