Leo Tolstoy
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By now the transition from analog to digital has almost been completed. Movies, music, photos and books. The old movies are easy to spot: actors using huge phones and driving old cars. Vinyl albums made those hissy noise when touched by the needle. And books, like the one I am reading, War and Peace, are so…
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My new-year resolution is to get through Tolstoy‘s monumental “War and Peace.” The characters and ethos were deliberate and elaborating (everyone wants a piece of the inheritance while the man was dying etc….). Visitors were announced at the gate (no intercom), received at party etc…. Tolstoy’s imperialistic people have time on their hands. We don’t. We tweet,…
Thang Nguyen 555 