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• Infinite Sky

  
  that Young philosopher — Authority: 120
  I was wrestling with Nikos, and he tripped me over. As I lay on the dandelions and dry pine needles, I was struck by the calm largesse of the blue above me; the quiet, infinite ascent, highlighted by the trees shadow, and a few clouds. This is a common experience in martial arts: after the rapidity and risk of ...
  2 days ago

• The Ultimate Book Worm’s Gift List

  
  HarperStudio — Authority: 510
  Nina Sankovitch , the author of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair , has compiled a fabulous gift list for all the readers in your life: The runner: What I Talk About When I Talk about Running by Haruki Murakami; The Optimist: On Kindness by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor; The Teenager: The Love of the Last ...
  3 days ago

• Great Books group discusses Tolstoy

  
  Newstreamz San Marcos — Authority: 149
  The Great Books Discussion group will meet at the San Marcos Public Library on Monday to discuss the Second Epilogue to War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.
  5 days ago

• BREAKING: New Yorker’s Tad Friend Names Tad Friend Greatest Author Ever

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 143
  Today, the New Yorker’s many contributors, editors, staffers, BFFs, etc., listed their most enjoyable reads of the year . Nothing too groundbreaking: David Remnick went with Updike, as well as “autobiographies by Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Malcolm X, Langston Hughes, and James Baldwin,” which the ...
  1 week ago

• The Last Station

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 445
  Jane emails: We saw The Last Station , the story of Leo Tolstoy’s tempestuous marriage. The take away: you can’t live without love and you can’t live without it. Helen Mirren and the director were there afterward for a Q&A. Tolstoy had a long unkempt beard and dressed like crap. His wife told him he ...
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• Christmas Wish ’09: Repelling the Martian Invasion

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 131
  Jacksonville , AL .   Just as professing Christians cannot follow Christ while serving Mammon, they are not being faithful to the Prince of Peace while glorifying Mars.  It’s nothing new.  The worldly principles of violence and war entered the church within its first three centuries of existence. The invasion ...
  1 week ago

• Frequent function forsaken and the fractioned-phallus fallacy, Plus ça climate change, Tortured Tolstoys, Treasure Tove, and Tillyard on tarts in the TLS

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 150
  “A paean to the penis offers much unintentional hilarity, says Leo Benedictus ” (reviewing Manhood: the Rise and Fall of the Penis by Mels van Driel in the Observer ): Why is there almost nothing on the penis’s most frequent function, as a conduit of urine? And as for rigour, well I am no urologist, but I ...
  1 week ago

• sunday bliss

  
  la porte rouge — Authority: 121
  It is a lovely sunday, it even warmed up! our plan is to take the dogs and tolstoy for a walk and gather some greens to decorate around the house. here are some more pictures from what was one of the most beautiful visual fog drenched days . i feel so very lucky, i love my husband, the animals( i want to call them ...
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• Bearding the Lion in Winter

  
  The Front Row — Authority: 126
  Norman Mailer remarked that the one kind of character no novelist can successfully conceive is a novelist better than himself. This line was brought to mind by a viewing of Michael Hoffman’s “The Last Station” (which David Denby reviews in the magazine this week), a drama about the final days of Leo Tolstoy ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Life and Times of Mrs. Leo Tolstoy

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 739
  Turns out that being married to Russian literary giant Leo Tolstoy wasn’t always a recipe for a good time. Sure, there was the excitement of helping him realize his loftiest artistic ambitions, but Sofia Tolstoy , wife of 48 years and mother of the author’s 13 children, eventually discovered that she would lose ...
  2 weeks ago

• Secret Science

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
    In Russian folklore attributed to Doestoevsky, or Tolstoy or both, a man tells his younger brother to sit in the corner and not think of a white bear, only to find later that the sibling can think of nothing else. According to psychologist Daniel Wegner, keeping things secrets creates "an obsession in a jar". ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy

  
  Bookyards — Authority: 132
  From : The Guardian Photo : http://www.guardian.co.uk/ Sofia Tolstoy paid a high price for her marriage, says Jay Parini. For Leo Tolstoy and his extended household, diaries were an early version of Facebook. Everyone had his or her own page, and most people were fanatical recorders of their own ...
  2 weeks ago

• Craving obstructs comprehension without you realizing it

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 8 (ANI): A new study from University of Pittsburgh has shown that craving for a cigarette not only increases the chances of a person’s mind wandering, but also disrupts his/her ability to realize when it has wandered.In the study involving 44 male and female heavy smokers, researchers showed that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Warrin’ Piece

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 150
  The Current Cinema Love Hurts by David Denby Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren as the Tolstoys in Michael Hoffman’s movie. In “The Last Station,” Christopher Plummer, at the crest of a long career, gives an impassioned portrait of the artist as an old man—Leo Tolstoy in his ...
  2 weeks ago

• Leo Tolstoy’s short stories – true pearls!

  
  1000petals... — Authority: 121
    Leo Tolstoy is mostly known for this great works like “War & Peace” or “Anna Karenina”, however he has left many short stories of great wisdom. Let me share with you one here. THREE HERMITS.   An OLD LEGEND CURRENT IN THE VOLGA DISTRICT ‘And in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles ...
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• Intuition of the Universe

  
  CAUTE — Authority: 103
  And in that region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear. And the angel said to them, "Be not afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy which ...
  2 weeks ago

• God sees truth but waits...

  
  Indrakanti karthikeya — Authority: 103
  This is a story which i read as part of my english syllabus. Today i found it as i was searching for some other thing. the Russian original was written by Leo Tolstoy. I found it at this link. After the story i remember my teacher telling us "its not humans job to punish others"... how true!!! In the town of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Battle of the Titans: Tolstoy Disses Shakespeare

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  I just read The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and was thinking about posting on it. Ilyich is a slender volume at only 25,000 words-quite a drop from Anna Kareninas 350,000 words or her big brothers War and Peace  t 550,000. But Tolstoy, in Ilyich, gets right to the heart of the matter. It is the story of an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Battle of the Titans: Tolstory Disses Shakespeare

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  I just read The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and was thinking about posting on it. Ilyich is a slender volume at only 25,000 words-quite a drop from Anna Kareninas 350,000 words or her big brothers War and Peace  t 550,000. But Tolstoy, in Ilyich, gets right to the heart of the matter. It is the story of an ...
  3 weeks ago

• somebodys got to be interested in how i feel just cause im here and im real

  
  Vertigo — Authority: 123
  For those of you who might not know, I am a compulsive book buyer. I dont buy clothes, CDs, DVDs, gadgets. I detest going shopping with mom. I havent been to the Mall in ages. I dont spend my money on such things. My one weakness are books. I have so many books that I dont have space for them in my room, yet, I ...
  3 weeks ago

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