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Sometimes you find explanations to things in the most unexpected places, even when you are not looking for an explanation, even when you really don’t care. That “sometimes” happened to me this afternoon. Anna Karenina gave me insight into Tiger Woods and Erin Nordegren’s feelings about the situation they find themselves in.
It was a beautiful sunny, crisp day and I decided I would go for a walk and at the same time start to listen to my latest audio book Anna Karenina -the unabridged version about 40 hours long. I’d always meant to read it but never got around to it, so when I saw it as an audio book, I decided there’s no time like the present. I down loaded it onto my ipod and started to listen. Listening to an audio book is a great way to get caught up on your reading.
I was walking along enjoying the sunshine and listening to the novel thinking life was good. At least, my life was good. Poor Dolly Arkadeyevich, Anna’s Karenina’s sister-in-law’s life wasn’t very good at this point in the novel. She had recently found a letter her husband, Stepan Arkadeyevich, had written to the governess that made it clear that her husband had been unfaithful (I like that old fashioned word) to her and turned her world upside.
That story sounded very familiar- the Tiger Woods and Erin Nordegren saga. I wondered what they thought about it all. I listened as Stepan Arkadeyevich’s position was explained
All he repented was that he had not succeeded better in hiding this from his wife. But he felt all the difficulty of his position and was sorry for his wife, his children, and himself. Possibly he might have managed to conceal his sins better from his wife if he had anticipated that the knowledge of them would have had such an effect upon her.
Whoa!
Then later I heard how Dolly Arkadeyevich felt about the situation
She’s young, you see, she’s pretty,” she went on. “Do you know, Anna, my youth and my beauty are gone, taken by whom? By him and his children. I have worked for him, and all I had has gone in his service, and now of course any fresh, vulgar creature has more charm for him. No doubt they talked of me together, or, worse still, they were silent about me…. Do you understand?”
Whoa!!!
As I came to the end of my walk, I wondered how the story was going to end? I guess I’ll have to wait until my next walk to find out.
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I’ve heard of Tolstoy and his ‘large-volumne’ book “War and Peace”. Your comment along with the book “Anna Karenina” bears the question to me “Why get married, have kids when you know you still continue to ‘run around’. I just don’t get it. Make up your mind. Your single or your married!
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