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For those of you who might've missed my bloodied War & Peace adventures at the brisk pace of 2 words a day, here are all 39 days of the journey in one place. Thanks again to @APublicSpace. #TolstoyTogether #2wordsaday
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Day 39 #TolstoyTogether #2wordsaday "about it."
The last time I saw my father he was moving out to sea with a rowboat full of books. Years went by. Gradually, we filled the bookcases again. My mother remarried. I became a writer. But even now I still can't swim.
Day 38 #TolstoyTogether #2wordsaday: "tell me"
My babushka was an official storyteller. She had memorized the entirety of War & Peace—people would line up for hours to hear her recite it. Sometimes she would declaim 100's of pages at a time, sometimes she would say only 2 words.
Day 35 #TolstoyTogether #2wordsaday: "je vois"
I can't remember when my mother went blind. There isn't a before or an after. There's only a song. She would play it in the evenings—I can hum it to you even now. She would stare out the window and I would wonder what it is to see.
Day 34 #TolstoyTogether #2wordsaday: "good evening"
Winter was the time of memory. The hours were slippery— as if the present had already happened. We ate our kasha and went out into the snow under a dark sky. It was morning or night. It didn't matter. All we could do was laugh.
Day 33 #TolstoyTogether #2wordsaday: "Good evening"
That far North, days never ended. The quality or the light bent and trembled, but the sun never set. Time grew long and sticky, like syrup. This was how we met—jumping off the back of a horse at midnight.
Day 32 #TolstoyTogether #2wordsaday: "commes vous" <"as you">
We used to throw rocks into the shallows of the Luga, trying to hit the fish. Oskar would pick up a rock but never throw it, though we teased him. Last year, I heard he had passed. He was the first of us to go.
Day 30 #TolstoyTogether #2wordsaday: "vous n'êtes"
you are not, you are not, you are not, you are not, you are not, you are not, you are not, you are
Day 29 #TolstoyTogether #2wordsaday: "mon ami"
In 1962, deep into what was supposedly the Krushchev Thaw, my friend Pavel was taken to the camps b/c he wrote some truths. When they took him that night, he was naked save an overcoat. Later, they sent back the overcoat, folded.
Day 28 #TolstoyTogether #2wordsaday "vous n'êtes" <you are not>
In the late '80s I lived in a 1-room flat that I acquired due to a bureaucratic glitch in the state artist program. It happened to be on the Trans-Siberian Express. For 200 days I was nowhere and everywhere at once.
Day 27 #TolstoyTogether #2wordsaday: "vous connais" <"know you">
Each time I rowed across the Bering Strait I was followed by a minke whale whom I came to call Andrei. The last time he was not there. A friend sent this picture from the beach in Уэлен. There's no way to know.
Day 26 #TolstoyTogether #2wordsaday: "je ne" <"I do not">
For a long time, I did not believe in gravity.
Day 25 #TolstoyTogether #2wordsaday "j'y crois" <"I believe it">
My last evening in St Helena, I ascended the 699 steps. At the top, a priest was standing, his robes cracking in the wind. I waved, breathless. He said something—I could not hear what—and headed out to the cliffs.
Day 24 #TolstoyTogether #2wordsaday: "ma parole" <my word>
It was in this Mordovian bus stop that the doctor gave me his word—he was going to do everything he could to save my father. I never saw that doctor (or my father) again.
Day 23 of #TolstoyTogether #2wordsaday: "cet antichrist"
6 of my 7 grandmothers died clutching their icons. I inherited only one of them, a tiny painting of baby Jesus with a huge forehead. I've been assured the icon brings good luck, though all of its previous owners are dead.
Day 20 #TolstoyTogether #2wordsaday: "pal-"
Once again, I have been caught unawares. The margin giveth, the margin taketh. To have a word end in mid-breath; for all action to cease; for quiet to descend upon the land—it is almost too much to bear. Yet there is always tomorrow.
Day 19 #TolstoyTogether #2wordsaday: "permettez encore" <allow again>
Oh when, oh when? Once I attended a Kino concert and when they played the perestroika anthem "Хочу перемен" there was no distance between me and those 10,000 other souls. We were closer than touching.
Day 18 #TolstoyTogether #2wordsaday: "vous vous" <you you>
It was sometime in the summer of '84, on a train to Kaliningrad, when I first realized that other people also had minds & that they were thinking of themselves not as "you" but as "me"—I was the "you." I never recovered.
Day 17 #TolstoyTogether #2wordsaday: "la guerre" <the war>
Now is the time when we must talk about the Imperial Russian officer's plume and how he keeps it so <ahem> attentive, even in the heat of battle.
Day 16 #TolstoyTogether #2wordsaday: "nous avons" <we have>
I've been thinking of the collective these days—what it means to have something together. Possession is often tied to the individual; an act of conquering, not of collaboration. But remember my kitchen, before the war?
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