{"id":12740,"date":"2023-05-08T20:26:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T20:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12740"},"modified":"2023-05-15T20:28:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T20:28:53","slug":"tolstoy-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/05\/08\/tolstoy-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolstoy 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from Real Clear Books<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leo Tolstoy the Free Thinker: Yet Another ‘New’ Look at ‘War and Peace’<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>By\u00a0John Tamny<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For mountain climbers, one imagines that Mt. Everest looms as the ultimate climb to validate one\u2019s ability. For runners, it would be the Boston Marathon, for triathletes the Iron Man?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For readers, it\u2019s no reach to say that Leo Tolstoy\u2019s\u00a0War and Peace<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is the Mt. Everest, Boston Marathon, or Iron Man of reading. Coming in at 1358 pages comprised of tiny letters, just looking at the novel is to feel intimidated. Picking it up in no way reduces the internal discomfort. No one likes to give up (see deaths on Everest, etc.), but it\u2019s safe to say that more people have quit reading\u00a0War and Peace<\/em>\u00a0than have completed it, after which it\u2019s even safer to say that exponentially more people have purchased\u00a0War and Peace<\/em>\u00a0than have ever begun reading it. It\u2019s easier on one\u2019s psyche to not open the book at all than to open it only to close it for good after just a few pages. Better to not have ventured than to have ventured only to quit, or something like that. At least it gives you deniability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ click to continue reading at RCB<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from Real Clear Books Leo Tolstoy the Free Thinker: Yet Another ‘New’ Look at ‘War and Peace’ By\u00a0John Tamny For mountain climbers, one imagines that Mt. Everest looms as the ultimate climb to validate one\u2019s ability. For runners, it would be the Boston Marathon, for triathletes the Iron Man? For readers, it\u2019s no reach to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}