Henry, do you think you can achieve specificity through a reaction? Famously, the beauty of Helen causing the invasion of Troy?
I'm re-reading Anna Karenina slowly. And to me the start of the infatuation between Anna and Vronsky hits home less in the description of the spark in Anna's eyes and smile, and more in Anna's decision to withhold from Kitty the anecdote of Vronsky compensating the widow of the crushed railway man.
"But she did not tell Kitty about the two hundred roubles. For some reason it was disagreeable to her to think of it. She felt that there was something that had to do with her in it, and something that ought not to have been."
Henry, do you think you can achieve specificity through a reaction? Famously, the beauty of Helen causing the invasion of Troy?
I'm re-reading Anna Karenina slowly. And to me the start of the infatuation between Anna and Vronsky hits home less in the description of the spark in Anna's eyes and smile, and more in Anna's decision to withhold from Kitty the anecdote of Vronsky compensating the widow of the crushed railway man.
"But she did not tell Kitty about the two hundred roubles. For some reason it was disagreeable to her to think of it. She felt that there was something that had to do with her in it, and something that ought not to have been."
Yes, totally. Tolstoy is the master of this!