How much of War and Peace did Tolstoy write while bearded?

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Did he think, "another few pages on someone yearning for Natasha Rostov; that's not very subversive. Better shave the fucker off to even potentially achieve sublimity while I'm producing such material"?

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Saturday, 3 May 2003 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

i am laughing but i have no idea why

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 3 May 2003 23:11 (twenty-three years ago)

(the biggest I could find)

― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 3 May 2003 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

vs.

― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 3 May 2003 23:15 (twenty-three years ago)

oops

― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 3 May 2003 23:17 (twenty-three years ago)

As a project back in UCLA days, I had the option in a class of writing a paper on Tolstoy or writing a snippet to fit into a segment of War and Peace anywhere in the text I liked. I chose the latter option but probably should have gone all out and tried for one of those essay snippets instead of a 'regular' part of the text. I did not write this while bearded.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 May 2003 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

for which you should be ashamed of for your lack of dedication.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Sunday, 4 May 2003 00:54 (twenty-three years ago)

There were higher causes at work, namely my fatwa against my stubble.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 May 2003 00:59 (twenty-three years ago)

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