re: Did he ever speak english?

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JEKing — 8/7/2008 3:20:36 AM (archived)

No, he didn't have time. He wrote in Russian for Russians. If this seems unresonable, consider this:
A photo of A.S.,
newly released from the gulag
suggests a man who could spare none of his time on extraneous tasks.

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Solzhenitsyn dead at 89 - JEKing - 8/4/2008 4:37:05 AM
- After reading that lecture...I gotta wonder... - z - 8/4/2008 9:45:32 PM
  - People who are able to write what they do are talented, and troubled. - Bowser - 8/6/2008 4:42:53 AM
  - Try reading Anton Chekhov's "In Exile" - Lee - 8/5/2008 2:51:49 AM
  - Latitude - Mary Anne - 8/5/2008 2:04:09 AM
    - I'll bet that guy Solzhenitsyn wasn't a whole lot of fun at parties (n/t) - z - 8/5/2008 1:06:03 PM
      - Did he ever speak english? (n/t) - Raoul - 8/6/2008 8:37:36 PM
        
        re: Did he ever speak english? - JEKing - 8/7/2008 3:20:36 AM
    - Alexander S. and Russians - JEKing - 8/5/2008 3:43:09 AM
      - Great insights! - McFly - 8/5/2008 5:16:35 PM
        
        re: Great insights! - JEKing - 8/5/2008 9:27:15 PM
    - Norwegians, too - Nick Hoffman - 8/5/2008 3:34:09 AM

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