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blackbootz · 3574 days ago · link · · parent · post: Third Bi-Weekly Give Me a Quote from Something You've Been Reading Lately
I know what you mean, and it would be ironic if Tolstoy wasn't so ardent a champion of single-entendre meaning. I think you're on point when you say that the act of writing or describing the scene would make necessary describing a consciousness of an unconsciousness.On first read, the passage is completely understandable. On second read, i wondered about Tolstoy or the translator trying to describe a consciousness of an unconsciousness which the act of writing makes necessary.