'There remains the greatest of all novelists-for what else can we
call the author of War And Peace? [Tolstoy's] senses, his intellect,
are acute, powerful, and well nourished ... Nothing seems to escape
him. Nothing glances off him unrecorded ... Every twig, every feather
sticks to his magnet. He notices the blue or red of a child's frock;
the way a horse shifts its tail; the sound of a cough; the action of
a man trying to put his hands into pockets that have been sewn up.
And what his infallible eye reports of a cough or a trick of the
hands his infallible brain refers to something hidden in the
character, so that we know his people, not only by the way they love
and their views but also by the way they sneeze and choke.
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