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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is banished to Mithras. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonsky’s castle. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on
an intrigue with an elf girl, who had been an enchantress in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on ornipeduring in the same castle with him.

>>7774546
Tolstoy
John Williams
God

>It's that double episode where Dave and Thom are invited by their old friend Leo to spend a week in Astapovo
>forty minutes of Leo lecturing them on agriculture
>somehow the best episode ever

Want to read my first Tolstoy book, should I start with War and peace of Anna Karenina?

>>7102793
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. A deed done is irrevocable, and its result coinciding in time with the actions of millions of other men assumes an historic significance. The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the more people he is connected with and the more power he has over others, the more evident is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

"The king's heart is in the hands of the Lord."

A king is history's slave.
History, that is, the unconscious, general, hive life of mankind, uses every moment of the life of kings as a tool for its own purposes.