I spent much of my life thinking the moral life was a matter of right and wrong. But tolstoy isn't going to tell us what's right or wrong. The story doesn't open, you know, withb andreevitch brekanov was a greedy, bad man, rogue. It just tells us what's on vassili's mind. And this is classic tolstoi. He presents little clues, hints, asides, subordinate clauses that actually reveal everything. But the question is, can we see them? I mean, i think the moral life is much less a matter of following rules than noticinga paying attention to recognizing what needs to be seen