
Ep 63 - Reflecting on Life, Literature & Reading the Great Books
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Tolstoy Is a Great Writer
Tolstoy is a writer who i have been conversing with quite deeply for a while and that conversation has deepened recently as we've read through war and peace. Tolstoy teaches us how to abide life and also how to survive death he teaches us that our trajectory may be sometimes upwards sometimes it's downwards incliningSometimes we think we have everything figured out and then it could be a few months down the line and we're plunged into a pit of despair. When we're in those ups when we're in a joyful period we want to go on living so that we can go on reading. If we do not want our short time to be made even shorter we must look after
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