Episode 238: I Am Not Ivan Ilyich...Am I?
Very Bad Wizards
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Is There a Redemptive Story in Death?
i didn't feel like tolstoy was trying to give a redemptive story here very well, because i think that that he's more aptly describing just physical death. He's not doesn't say much bout ya, the gurgling tho death rattles, which, you know, if you've been next to someone dying, it's really bean. It does last a long time, and they're going, and their bodys kind of fighting it. So i think, on this reading, i think that this is actually, like, a pretty pessimistic take. I liked at yeits oit made me feel at least, and andi, it's still optimistic to
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