#luckily i can confirm that the scene where anatole goes to meet marya and lise and bourienne is almost identical

[hobgoblinns]

i went through a very traumatic journey on my twitter yesterday of reading the comet section of the original draft of war and peace and to summarise

- no polish wife

- no abduction

- no arsenic

- no confrontation with a paperweight

- no comet of 1812

but on the plus side pierre EATS a letter