LEO TOLSTOY

Leo Tolstoy hated washing his car. 
In a letter dated 1881, the count wrote:
“I bought this new LeBaron; I wish I hadn’t.
It is totally white and it shows all the dirt.”

In another letter from 1881, he wrote:
“I sold the son of a bitch and bought a horse.
The peasants don’t refuse to wash her
When I let the children ride around on her.”

Despite his conviction in these letters,
We know that Tolstoy had his doubts.
His wife wrote to her sister in Minsk,
“After he sold the car, Leo was different.”

“He makes vroom vroom noises in his room,”
She wrote in another letter. “I worry about him.
He tells me he is planning his greatest novel,
But I know he is only thinking about the car.”    

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