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Veteran of four wars, four enlistments, four branches: Air Force, Army, Army Reserve, Army National Guard. I am both an AF (Air Force) veteran and as Veteran AF (As Fuck)

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Sunday, October 13, 2024

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: Beauty and Deep Irony Unlocked by Hannah Arendt

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Irony can be lovely in literature. The current living master of irony in my reading is Kazuo Ishiguro especially in his book The Remains of ...

Thursday, March 7, 2024

Beautiful Sky Over the Moment of (Near) Death: War and Peace, End of Part I

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The Emperor Napoleon and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky In the final scenes of Volume 1 of War and Peace Prince Andrei Bolkonsky lies on his ba...

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

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I am re-reading "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy. I am 300 pages into the 1996-page Pevear and Volokhonsky translation. Tolstoy ...

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Book 9a of 2016: "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy

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Why is a story about the life and death of a middle-aged, middle class, mid-career, mid-19th Century Russian bureaucrat on a 21st Century...

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