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Anna Karenina

20.5.2025 | Charmed by each character's indecision; it's difficult to really change. I think narrative mostly selects for the linear, related events and thoughts, but AK is very interior, and follows the winding turns through the characters' minds whether or not they end in action or change. Identifying with Levin's yearning for (his external observation of) the simplicity of the peasant; an exoticized idea he has of the simple life.