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AnnotationAhrenberg, Lars

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s-106 'Will they print it?' she asked.
s-107 'Difficult to guess,' I tell her.
s-108 'The Times ought to be stronger in politics than it is in literature, but who knows.
s-109 Of course it must do financial news and sports well enough.
s-110 If it covered ball games as badly as it reviews books, the fans would storm it like the Bastille.
s-111 Book readers evidently haven't got the passionate intensity of sports fans.'
s-112 What disturbs is whether Americans understand the world at all, whether they are a match for the Russians the Sadats are in themselves comparatively unimportant.
s-113 To dissident Russian writers like Lev Navrozov, the Americans can never be a match for the Russians.
s-114 He quotes from Dostoevski's The House of the Dead a conversation between the writer and a brutal murderer, one of those criminals who fascinated him.
s-115 I haven't the book handy, so I paraphrase.
s-116 'Why are you so kind to me?' Dostoevski asks.
s-117 And the murderer, speaking to one of the geniuses of the nineteenth century, answers, 'Because you are so simple that one can not help feeling sorry for you.'
s-118 Even when he robbed Dostoevski, he pitied him as one might 'a little cherub-like child.'
s-119 Navrozov, exceedingly intelligent but, to a Westerner, curiously deformed (how could an independent intellectual in the Soviet Union escape deformity?), sees us, the Americans, as children at whom the Stalins smile through their mustachios.
s-120 Perhaps there is a certain Vautrin-admiring romanticism in this.

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