Tolstoy: The Long Way Home

Fictional

Jason Weiser

Arts, History, Books

4.9 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Two men, a servant and his master, take a drive on a snowy evening. The experience will forever alter both of their lives.

Adapted from "Master and Man" by Leo Tolstoy.

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0:00.0	You are the only sober one.
0:17.5	Vasiliy Dondravic asked Nikita.
0:20.3	Nikita, realizing maybe for the first time that being sober made it easier to control
0:24.8	your speech to your employer, said, yeah, he was sober.
0:29.9	Don't sound so surprised.
0:32.6	I am surprised.
0:34.0	Vasiliy, the boss, replied.
0:36.5	Beads of sweat starting to form in the barn.
0:39.2	Vasiliy was sweating in his two fur coats, but he narrowed his eyes at Nikita.
0:44.6	You're usually drunk on like a Wednesday.
0:48.5	Wednesday morning Vasiliy laughed.
0:50.9	It's St. Nicholas' day.
0:53.1	And everyone else's three sheets to the wind.
0:55.2	Don't act like it's not surprising that you are the only one in my household not drunk
0:59.6	right now.
1:00.6	Nikita clenched his jaw and stood up in the hay.
1:04.7	He said, yeah, he was making some changes.
1:09.8	Now how could he help his master?
1:13.1	He had a pounding headache, felt like he was going to vomit and talking and listening
1:17.8	to talking were not very fun right now.
1:21.2	Vasiliy, the boss, said that he needed a horse and carriage, tacked up and ready to go.
1:26.5	There was an emergency in town.
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