Rishi suddenly asked me today what was meant by Love Marriage. He had told me a couple of days ago that his classmates use the 'F word' but I had not asked him if he knew what it meant. Now the question of love and marriage were also coming up and I asked him where he had heard about it. He evasively said people talk about it. I said love marriage meant that a girl and guy decide that they should get married, instead of parents finding them a match. Then he blushed and said his drawing teacher had asked him if his parents had had a love marriage and he had replied "of course not". It amused me that he was so convinced about it but I didn't pursue him further.
L wrote to me that she's happy in Versailles - cooking, busy but without her tyrannical guide, enjoying life in general.
I've finished War and Peace but have to re-read certain chapters. Now I'm onto Crime and Punishment and reading it very slowly, of course. Unlike Tolstoy's, Dostoevsky's characters are more interesting - each one of them. Tolstoy introduces varied people and describes them to some detail but Dostoevsky lays his people bare in front of you and makes your heart cry for them. You wish sometimes that they were uncomplicated like Pierre but you also know that they cannot, somehow in spite of themselves.
L wrote to me that she's happy in Versailles - cooking, busy but without her tyrannical guide, enjoying life in general.
I've finished War and Peace but have to re-read certain chapters. Now I'm onto Crime and Punishment and reading it very slowly, of course. Unlike Tolstoy's, Dostoevsky's characters are more interesting - each one of them. Tolstoy introduces varied people and describes them to some detail but Dostoevsky lays his people bare in front of you and makes your heart cry for them. You wish sometimes that they were uncomplicated like Pierre but you also know that they cannot, somehow in spite of themselves.
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