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"If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy."*
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"If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy."*

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Naomi K
Oct 25, 2010
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A few weeks ago, I read War and Peace. I was astonished, delighted, transfigured…all the things you’re supposed to be after reading War and Peace. I loved every page, including the dozens of little digressions on the worthlessness of contemporary historians (which culminate in an Ayn Randish fifty-page rant in the epilogue). I will never be the same aga…

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