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The First Circle

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Vaclav Smil loved it
Emotionally, I was much taken by Solzhenitsyn's First Circle (Harper & Row, 1968), the book I could not read as a citizen of the westernmost province of the Soviet Empire and read in the original right after we came to Pennsylvania in 1969.

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It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

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