Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme

Author:Donald Barthelme
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Fantasy, Classics
ISBN: 0436034247
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1987-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

At The Tolstoy Museum

AT the Tolstoy Museum we sat and wept. Paper streamers came out of our eyes. Our gaze drifted toward the pictures. They were placed too high on the wall. We suggested to the director that they be lowered six inches at least. He looked unhappy but said he would see to it. The holdings of the Tolstoy Museum consist principally of some thirty thousand pictures of Count Leo Tolstoy.

After they had lowered the pictures we went back to the Tolstoy Museum. I don’t think you can peer into one man’s face too long—for too long a period. A great many human passions could be discerned, behind the skin.

Tolstoy means “fat” in Russian. His grandfather sent his linen to Holland to be washed. His mother did not know any bad words. As a youth he shaved off his eyebrows, hoping they would grow back bushier. He first contracted gonorrhea in 1847. He was once bitten on the face by a bear. He became a vegetarian in 1885. To make himself interesting, he occasionally bowed backward.

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