28
PARTISAN REVIEW
curious to know what this means-prognosis
&
diagnosis-but for the
sake of the therapy I must shut up. And I do. Dammit.
The other night one of my Stalinist students who always inter–
rupts the class with Gospel said, during the talk on Tolstoy, following
the remark that Russia had always lagged behind the West in industri–
alization and science, "Have you read in the paper where the seismo–
graph detected a strong trembling of the earth in the vicinity of
Tolstoy'S birthplace?" And his eyes blinked happily in the vision of the
atom bomb.
"Just Tolstoy turning over in his grave," said
I.
