On 3/16/16 5:28 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > confirm the observation made in the first > sentence of Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina”: “Happy families are all alike; > every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
A characteristically glib and inaccurate observation on Tolstoy's part. Novelists are much given to this kind of generalization, but they're not really equipped for it. This particular bon mot would be slightly more accurate, in fact, if the terms were reversed. Admittedly, not bad as Scott Fitzgerald's ruminations, but that's setting the bar pretty low. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
