Nothing quite puts me in a somber mood like Stalin's show trials.

Morning Pages | 17 April 2025

I cleaned the green ink out of the Waldmann pen and replaced it with red. Green was for autumn, although it would fit well for spring too. Nevertheless, I felt drawn to the red, so here we are. I love that pen.

Waldmann Edelfeder Broad with J. Herbin Hématite Rouge

Books Mentioned

• Red Star Over Russia

• Gulag Archipelago (50th Anniversary Edition)

• Anna Karenina, (Rosamund Bartlett Translation, Oxford World Classics)

• The Karamzov Brothers, (Ignat Avsey Translation, Oxford World Classics)

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