On these pages we have another of Tolstoy's philosophical musing...A good commander not only does not need genius or any special qualities, but, on the contrary, he needs the absence of the best best and highest human qualities--love, poetry, tenderness, a searching philosophical doubt. He should be limited firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important... God forbid he should be a human being and come to love or pity someone, or start thinking about what is just and what isn't.
Lucy Arrington
from page 55-56, Volume 2 of original text
collage, ink
made 2/25/11
Pevear/Volokhonsky translation page 643-744
from page 55-56, Volume 2 of original text
collage, ink
made 2/25/11
Pevear/Volokhonsky translation page 643-744
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