Tolstoy Re-Visited

I started reading Tolstoy in my late twenties and never recovered, thank god. With me, Tolstoy is a terminal addiction.

Picking up my old copy of Anna Karenina, glancing idly through it, I have not been able to put it down.

Notice how, in Chapter V, Levin is introduced; read his conversation with Oblonsky, how few words pass between them, and yet everything is "said."

Tolstoy did not write "books." Anyone can do that. Tolstoy wrote life itself.