Today (Feb 14-- I'm several time zones ahead of the server) is my twentieth wedding anniversary. My wife isn't as much of a Solzhenitsyn fan as I am, but she did start the process that led to this blog. ISI Books recently came out with an excellent anthology of Solzhenitsyn's writings. When I looked at the list of contents, I thought it interesting, but decided it wouldn't be worth buying for myself, because the amount of new stuff in it didn't seem that large. But my wife encouraged some friends to buy it for me as a gift, and going through it rekindled the embers of my Solzhenitysnophilia (now there's a word for you), and it was in the warmth of that rekindled interest that I started this blog.
One other story about my wife. Our courtship had its tensions, mostly in my own heart. I loved her, but she wasn't my ideal of someone who would share all my interests (such as Solzhenitsyn). I was in love, but another part of me didn't approve of my love. One afternoon we were out together, the two sides of my mind still in conflict. I saw the sun glinting on her hair, and my heart said to my disapproving mind "Let this be, she will be my prison sun". My disapproving mind retorted how horribly I was twisting this Solzhenitsyn image out of context.
Well, in the end I chose my heart and not the disapproving mind. And twenty years later, its pretty obvious my heart was right.
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