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Before I forget…
The first time I couldn’t remember a name I was, perhaps, in my 30s. (It was a while ago; I don’t remember the year. Or my age.) I was at the Met for a performance of Tosca. It was an … Continue reading
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Tagged 'The Irish Ballad', "Speak Memory", Joe Biden, JS Bach, Mahler, Mario Cavaradossi, Metropolitan Opera, Paul Krugman, Scarpia, Tito Gobbi, Tom Lehrer, Tosca, Vladimir Nabokov, Well Tempered Clavier
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I’ve been re-reading Russian lit and have been stunned by one universal theme
I didn’t say to myself one day, “I’m going to read my collection of Russian lit.” There was no such plan. Simply, I decided it was time to re-read Anna Karenina. I was uneasy about doing it, uneasy about the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Karenina, Bolshevism, Chechov, emphysema, Eugene Onegin, Henri Troyat, Jane Eyre, Lenin, Pushkin, Russian literature, Stalin, Tolstoy, Trotsky, Vladimir Nabokov, War and Peace, Wuthering Heights
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