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Podcast: The Reader and the Writer
Episode: War and Peace | Part 4 - April Reading
Description: Hello! Welcome to April’s reading of War & Peace. In this episode, Shari and Rhea do a deep dive in the contrasts and companionships continuing to form in W&P. They spend considerable time talking about Pierre and Andrei: their arguments about what matters, their individual directions and efforts, their loves, lusts, and greatest desires. They discuss Andrei’s turn toward life after his strange and shocking encounters with beauty. They wonder why Pierre can’t be happy despite walking diligently in his Freemasonry faith. They discuss what Tolstoy is doing with Rostov and Denisov’s story, namely...