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>>19256626
He was a vegetarian, not a vegan. Also, he advocated teetotalism and chastity, even after marriage. He was pretty healthy though, he lived to 82, which was quite long for the time, and could lift 82 kg with one hand.
>>19259324
Yeah, from his essay on Shakespeare:
>From his first words exaggeration is seen: exaggeration of events, exaggeration of feelings, and exaggeration of expression. It is at once evident that he does not believe in what he is saying, that he has no need to say it, that he is inventing the occurrences he describes, is indifferent to his characters and has devised them merely for the stage, and therefore makes them do and say what may strike his public; and so we do not believe either in the events or in the actions, or the sufferings of his characters.

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Today is the first day of the Hadji Murat Reading Group. Read the first 5 chapters with us!


Hadji Murat is only 212 pages, and papa Bloom calls it: “my personal touchstone for the sublime of prose fiction, to me the best story in the world, or at least the best that I have ever read."

This reading group has finished: Makioka Sisters by Tanizaki, Melmoth the Wanderer/Melmoth Reconciled, Middle C by Gass, Don Quixiote, Dante's Divine Commedy, Magic Mountain by Mann, Hyperion by Hoderlin, Walaschek's Dream by Orelli, Petersburg by Bely, Kappa by Akutagawa and others!

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Come read Hadji Murat with a group of people who actually finish books, unlike 99% of these reading groups.

Schedule is 5 chapters a day starting Monday, and then Forged Coupon on the weekend.

Hadji Murat is only 212 pages, and papa Bloom calls it: “my personal touchstone for the sublime of prose fiction, to me the best story in the world, or at least the best that I have ever read.", and what Joyce called the finest story he ever read.

This reading group has finished: Makioka Sisters by Tanizaki, Melmoth the Wanderer/Melmoth Reconciled, Middle C by Gass, Don Quixiote, Dante's Divine Commedy, Magic Mountain by Mann, Hyperion by Hoderlin, Walaschek's Dream by Orelli, Petersburg by Bely, Kappa by Akutagawa and others!