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. . and the sound of the snipe beyond the pond ; and the voice of a man on the highway ; and the quiet, almost inaudible scraping of two old beeches against each other . . . and the hops of the frogs, which sometimes even got so far as the verandah steps, and shone rather mysteriously in the moonlight with their green backs, — all this assumed a strange significance for me, the signifi- cance of a beauty too great and of an endless happiness ! " ^ Tolstoy's sensitiveness to impressions and his ...powers of observation — intensive and extensive, as logicians would say — have not always proved themselves to be advantageous. They have incited him to revisions of his work almost numberless, and in his case revisions inevitably mean enlargements, — never a pruning process whereby he seeks to say ' Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, p. 333. 70 LEO TOLSTOY the most in the least number of words. To this habit of revision-enlargement is due the prolixity of many portions of War and Peace and Resur- rection, and the occasional wordiness of Anna Karenina, as well as the more wearisome repetitions of the books on religion and social science.
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