When the master’s daughter had bad news to impart—such as having run over another peasant and damaged the carriage—she would write him a letter and leave it by the hearth, knowing he would use it to kindle his fire: a trick she’d learned from his majordomo. #TolstoysTalesofTrump

Jun 30, 2020 · 10:15 PM UTC

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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
That’s a nice combination of Tolstoy and F Scott Fitzgerald’s Daisy. So sad so true.
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
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