I've Been Telling You a Story That's Basically Forty Hours Long, and Then Who Knows How Long?

Among catholics, for example, and christians in general, there's an idea that salvation can always be attained. Tolstoy overcame his rationally induced cynicism in a kind of mystical way. He had a dream that he was suspended from some transcendent space by a belt around the middle of his waist which hung him over a pit of chaos. The im has power, but you can't grab it with your rational mind. You can't take it into pieces and analyze it as an argument. And i think the detailed structure of what tolstoy apprehended as optimistic is actually comprehensible.