I found this article, a bit long but scroll down a bit to when literature is discussed. revdem.ceu.edu/2022/06/07/i...
Would you agree that it is a fair description of how war is described in W&P?

Granted, it is a bit more jarring now to hear those, they do stand out. But I lost count of films where they quote something just once, and it is one of those.
I saw Locked the other day, trifecta of Tolstoy, Evgeny Onegin, and Tchaikovsky)

I was not arguing about merits per se (at first), as you remember, I first asked why they are quoted so much more than the western authors.

The very fact that you know about these books is due to propaganda about mysterious Russian soul in the first place though. The fact that the book about a guy killing a grandma with an axe is considered a masterpiece - that is on the readers)
I read war and peace in Russian btw (was forced on us)

The very fact that it is so deep inside the western culture shows the success of propaganda. But Tolstoy cup is next level thing, instead of all the great writers of the western civilization they chose the boring Russian, that is a bit funny)

Genuine question - are there any respected writers in the west? Any movie or show I watch always references Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and other Russian imperialists. Why? What do kids study in literature class?

13, although one of those is a free ball you start the break with)

Ursenbacher and Pagett should be up there

+ Branthwaite ;)

I'm beating this pope's ass on Duolingo, where we're both learning German but he's only got 29,802 XP

Why is it Turkey here, but for Russian atrocities in Ukraine it's always Putin?

MAGA's version of free speech seems to involving banning a lot of speech, oddly enough.

And our home from is quite fine this season, even the recent relative wobble is away (second half with wolves aside)

I'm not convinced their run in is that much better than ours actually.
They played city and Tottenham, we played forest and Bournemouth. Plus even if we lose on Sunday, we will have 7 home games and only 4 aways

Three 3 o'clock games on the spin, when was the last time?