The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” ~ 1st Corinthians 7:1

 Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do. But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion. ~ ~ 1st Corinthians 7:8-9

I sometimes think that I must have been a Russian living in the 1800s before being reincarnated during the Eisenhower administration.  For some reason, Russian literature of that period talks to me.  Tolstoy is one of my favorite authors, and I thoroughly enjoyed this novella of his.

The reviews I read on this book declared that Tolstoy wrote it to advocate abstinence as Continue reading “The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy”