Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
I'm enjoying the drawn-out pleasure of Doctor Zhivago by Boris …
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2002 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.
I'm enjoying the drawn-out pleasure of Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. I usually hate tone-setting narration, but here it's great. And Pasternak's swift and cutting depictions of the Revolution clearly say, "Censor me!" and/or portray all the reasons people became starry-eyed Communists.
Work, parties, Leonard, stand-up worries, books. Michael greeted me with a Bach sonata or partita when I got home. Could one go on the Atkins diet and remain a vegetarian? Does UC's president put the university on an Atkins diet? Will I make it to the Apollo Amateur Night performance in Zellerbach? What am I supposed to be doing?
