There’s a long section (about 100 pages) at the end of War and Peace that serves as a treatise on the nature of small events building to create large events, about the incrementalism of history and historiography. This section serves as an epilogue to the remaining 1000 or so pages, and by the time you’ve gotten that far, if you haven’t already picked up your pace too meet the length of the novel, well, what’s another 100 at the conclusion of all the different stories. Both […]