nattlebattle

Tolstoy and hilarious verbosity

[Karenin] felt like a man who has just had a tooth drawn which has been hurting him for a long time. After terrible pain and a sensation as if something enormous, bigger than his whole head, were being pulled out of his jaw, he feels, scarcely believing in his happiness, that the thing which has so long been poisoning his life and engrossing his attention no longer exists, and that it is possible again to live, think, and be interested in other things.