The Purging Lutheran has photodocumented, without permission from the publisher, page 259 of the Leo Tolstoy classic, Anna Karenina. My Sweet Rib read it a few months ago and it is unlikely I will ever read it so there is no reason to keep it. MSR also broke the spine, making it unsaleable to decent human beings. Though it is just short of 100,000 pages she enjoyed it very much. She noted the characters were engaging, the story intriguing, and felt it was an honest description of Russian life in the 1800s. She didn’t say when during the 1800s it occurred, early, mid or late, but it probably didn’t matter. The Russian lifestyle isn’t known for its quick pace or slavish devotion to modern fashion or engineering. An oxen-pulled cart in Tsarist Russia during the Napoleanic wars was pretty much the same oxen-pulled cart in pre-Leninist Russia 100 years later when Tevye is forced to leave Anatevka with his wife and daughters. On a scale of 1 to 10 bowls of borscht, MSR gives Anna Karenina 8 tasty bowls of this backbone of the Russian diet. Zdorovye!
My only question is “Did Tolstoy’s friends called him ‘Leo’ or ‘Lou’?”
Hebrews 13:7-8
Appreciate your pastoral leaders who gave you the Word of God. Take a good look at the way they live, and let their faithfulness instruct you, as well as their truthfulness. There should be a consistency that runs through us all. For Jesus doesn’t change—yesterday, today, tomorrow, he’s always totally himself.
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