EMILY’s Reviews > Anna Karenina > Status Update

"Our district self-government and all the rest of it—it’s just like the birch branches we stick in the ground on Trinity Day, for instance, to look like a copse which has grown up of itself in Europe, and I can’t gush over these birch branches and believe in them."

Tolstoy is a genius; if I, too, were born in 1828, I would've been able to pull him -- 100%.