Tolstoy Image Gallery

Katz, Michael mkatz at MIDDLEBURY.EDU
Thu Jun 13 10:53:39 UTC 2002


Re: Donna Orwin's announcement concerning the  Photo Gallery on the Tolstoy
Society website:
> I cannot refrain from quoting the first paragraph of Donald Barthelme's
> wickedly funny story, "At the Tolstoy Museum:"
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> "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."
>
> Michael Katz
> Middlebury College
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