Tolstoy
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Tolstoy is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 10, 2023 and September 19, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “She’s the American Tolstoy or Tolkien”; “Shakespeare and so on to Tolstoy”; “through Dante and Shakespeare and so on to Tolstoy”. It most often appears alongside 15th century Sicilian manuscript, Agrimardio, Aigeis.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: March 10, 2023
- Last seen: September 19, 2023
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Related Pages
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- 15th century Sicilian manuscript (1 shared issues)
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- Agrimardio (1 shared issues)
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- Aigeis (1 shared issues)
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- Alans (1 shared issues)
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- Alex (1 shared issues)
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- Alex Nowratesh (1 shared issues)
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- Alexander (1 shared issues)
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- Alexander Romance (1 shared issues)
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- Alexander the Great (1 shared issues)
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- Alexandria (1 shared issues)
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- Alfred (1 shared issues)
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- Amenhotep (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
There are two possible explanations for Rand's success. The first is that her politics are just that compelling and her philosophy that overwhelming in its logic (they're not). The second is that her prose is just that good. That she's the American Tolstoy or Tolkien.
We divide “high culture” from “mass culture”. High culture, those books that plumb the depths of the human spirit, go from the Iliad through the great Greek tragedies through Dante and Shakespeare and so on to Tolstoy, Proust, and Knausgaard. Mass culture - those books that the average person finds entertaining - might also start with the Iliad, but ends up at Dan Brown, J.K. Rowling, and Batman comics.