When Leo Tolstoy was writing War and Peace, his wife, Sonya, copied it for him seven times. And she did it by candlelight and with a dip pen. And sometimes she had to use a magnifying glass, to make out what he had written.
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- What a way to ruin a vacation.
- How are you doing with War and Peace, Charlie Brown?
- I just finished reading the dust jacket.
- Many is the book report that has been written by just reading the dust jacket.
- But it's such a long book. Look, it's 1136 pages long. I bet it weighs more than I do.
- She wrote the book seven times with a dip pen. And you're telling me you can't even read it once?
- Hello?
- Hi, Chuck. This is Peppermint Patty.
- Oh, hi.
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