Reading Matter
Feb. 7th, 2022 11:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI finished War and Peace.
And I'm left marvelling at how Tolstoy- who was in his late thirties when he wrote it- came to know so much- about psychology, spirituality, family dynamics, warfare, you name it. I guess he was just one of those rare people- like Shakespeare, Leonardo, Einstein- who seem to have been born with a more capacious spirit/mind/ brain than the rest of us.
Now I need to get back to my read through of Dickens, but I've already packed the Collected Works- and I refuse to unpack until we get to the new house- so Dombey and Son can wait. Instead I'll be picking up Mary Renault's The Mask of Apollo- which I bought at the same time as the Collected Dickens at the back end of last year.
And then there's Alan Garner's Treacle Walker, which I bought as soon as it was published and have been saving up as a treat- but it's really no more than a short story so I'll probably finish it at a sitting.
And I'm left marvelling at how Tolstoy- who was in his late thirties when he wrote it- came to know so much- about psychology, spirituality, family dynamics, warfare, you name it. I guess he was just one of those rare people- like Shakespeare, Leonardo, Einstein- who seem to have been born with a more capacious spirit/mind/ brain than the rest of us.
Now I need to get back to my read through of Dickens, but I've already packed the Collected Works- and I refuse to unpack until we get to the new house- so Dombey and Son can wait. Instead I'll be picking up Mary Renault's The Mask of Apollo- which I bought at the same time as the Collected Dickens at the back end of last year.
And then there's Alan Garner's Treacle Walker, which I bought as soon as it was published and have been saving up as a treat- but it's really no more than a short story so I'll probably finish it at a sitting.
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