Update on Gnoppix Linux
I downloaded the latest image of the Gnoppix but it is nowhere near the original Knoppix.
It is nothing much to talk about but if you have low RAM do not try it.
It is trying to introduce this strange AI mode installation, which is bizarre for me to comment on.
It's image is 4.5GB. Mind you I do not like any image over 4GB, except BlueStar Linux.
Regarding Ubuntu, it is again a waste of time testing it it is over again.
It has no utilities, even though it is 6.5GB image.
After some lapse I installed Reborn OS on my NUC.
This time no problem with GRUB file and it did recognize all the other other distributions already installed.
It has STACER my favor utility which Debian 13 does not support.
But Debian has System Monitor.
I installed Gnome desktop but has the bonus of Plasma desktop, too.
One has to select ones choice of desktop at install time.
Reborn OS supports almost all the browsers.
Apart from Firefox my favorite, I have;
1. Librewolf
2. Falkon
3. Opera
4. Vivaldi
5. Konqueror
6. Brave
7. Dillo
8. Gnome browser or Epiphany
9. Anglerfish
10. Google Chrome browser I never use
11. Tor Browser
I have no paranoia and I do not use it.
12. Safari of Apple
13. Internet Explorer of Microsoft and Edge
That was (IE) the first browser I ditched to go fully for Mozilla browser in it's early stages of development. Firefox was the standard for Linux Distributions and me being a Linux Guy stuck to Firefox for life. With Linux one need not fiddle with the Firefox configuration. In any case it is the strip down version of Firefox with no unnecessary cookies.
That is the beauty of Linux and that is why it is fast. I used to use the history file when I was bit paranoid having ditched Microsoft for it's snoopy behavior I detected early in my web browsing life.
Now a few words about Linux Catchy OS.
It is strip down version of Arch with only the essentials and it is absolutely fast.
It has developed its own browser.
One has to have a good understanding of Linux to use it as a daily driver.
I prefer Reborn OS which more desktop oriented distribution. One has to choose one desktop at installation. I use Gnome and add Plasma desktop, later. It supports Cosmic, MATE desktop and many more to add if one wants.
Reborn OS
Reborn OS is pretty Good.
It has many good features. I am currently Installing Reborn Os on top of CarchyOS which is also based on ARCH but minimal. This is the penultimate stage of testing ARCH based distributions which were all based on KDE (Endeavour OS, BlueStar Linux OS which I have already installed in my System) but this one I chose because it is Gnome based. I decided, I would promote only Gnome Desktop, in future due to many reasons. On second thought. I am promoting both KDE Plasma and Gnome then, only one can see the difference.
Gnome of Debian is my workhorse.
Its installation is fast. Graphical instructions are intuitive and I had the choice of selecting Abiword, OpenOffice, LibreOffice and there was another word processor I did not know anything about. Well, I went for my favourite AbiWord. One can install it either offline or online. Online takes a little longer and one can chose one of about 10 desktops at install. I prefer online install. By the way, little while ago I installed Gnome minus LibreOffice and most of the languages and also Firefox. It saved 2GB and the Grand Total was just over 7GB for basic install. It had all my utilities I need in a basic install and it went up to 8GB on full install and I have 11GB left, in my root partition of 19GB, for any additional packages I might Install.
RebornOS is a desktop oriented Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. Although the RebornOS live image provides Xfce desktop, the installation process offers a choice to install one of the many popular desktop environments and window managers. Other interesting features of the distribution include support for Flatpak packages, optional installation of Anbox for running Android applications, a capability to rollback the system to a previous date, and graphical system configuration and maintenance tools.
OS Type Linux
Based on ARCH
Origin USA
Architecture x86-64
Desktop XFCE
Category Desktop and Live Medium
Status Active
MX Linux Revisited-Thank YOU
There some problem with GRUB file and it did not recognize Reborn OS. I am reinstalling Reborn OS with a big /var partition for my additional applications.
It has finished installing.
I am currently installing MX Linux 6.1.0-35-amd64 Kernel.
It is almost two years.
I is using KDE desktop as its base.
I am installing Gnome desktop now.
Make sure one start with Gdm and not Sddm (one has to look for the type of desktop from the panel below).
I am used to the top right hand scheme of the Gnome.
Installation is very slow but everything is streamlined for a newbie with graphic instructions.
It is nice to see even Reborn OS use MX Linux methods.
I hope it gets my GRUB file OK.
Fortunately it lets me access my Gnome /Home folder to copy my books to MX Linux folder., in case I mess up with my Gnome.
I am well into Debian 13 series which bit refined and no complaints.
I have 2 Debian and one Reborn OS and MX Linux in my NUC with 320GB.
It has a 50GB NTFS folder which stores all my favorite Linux distributions that include Reborn OS, Manjaro, Bodhi 7.0.0.64, Arch, Antix, Debian old and new and many more images.
I went back to Gnome Desktop and got Synaptic Package Manager installed.
Stacer, Gdebi, Gparted and USB writer and USB formatter included.
Yes, using KDE is a pain in the arxx>.
I do not need to respond to every OK approval now.
By the way it supports open office.
Monday, June 10, 2024
Mx Linux 23.3-Install
Since,
I have given up on Ubuntu, I decided to use another Linux distribution
on top of Debian, Gnome, with a Light Weight Desktop.
I am beginning to Love Light Weight Desktops where on can fiddle with icon and windows.
In Flushbox Windows can be taken out of the monitor screen but they do not disappear but come from the other end.
It reduces the clutter even on a giant monitor.
I have also decided to Install it on a USB, instead of writing on a USB to mount.
I want it to be persistent copy and not a Live session.
It has lot of options and it is finishing install with Efi partition and a SWAP partition, in case I mount it on a Windows Box.
I takes long time to install USB stick which is understandable.
It booted with a user password and root password for Synaptic Package Manager.
I am currently installing,
1. AbiWord.
2. Stacer.
3. Notepadqq
4. Ranger
There is no LibreOffice.
Efi
/root is just under 10GB.
/boot
SWAP
No additional partitions.
I have found a way to add additional partitions say /var or /tmp.
Arthur Buchwald (Born, October 20, 1925 – January 17, 2007) was an American humorist best known for his column in The Washington Post. At the height of his popularity, it was published nationwide as a syndicated column in more than 500 newspapers. His column focused on political satire and commentary.
Buchwald had first started writing as a paid journalist in Paris after World War II, where he wrote a column on restaurants and nightclubs, "Paris After Dark", for the Paris Herald Tribune, which later became the International Herald Tribune.[2] He was part of a large American expatriate community in those years. After his return to the United States in 1962, he continued to publish his columns and books for the rest of his life. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for Outstanding Commentary, and in 1991 was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, in addition to other awards.
Early life
Buchwald was born in New York City in 1925, to an Austrian-Hungarian Jewish immigrant family. He was the son of Joseph Buchwald, a curtain manufacturer, and Helen (Klineberger). His mother suffered from depression and was later committed to a mental hospital, where she lived for 35 years. Buchwald was the youngest of four children, with three older sisters: Alice, Edith, and Doris. When the family business failed at the start of the Great Depression, Buchwald's father put the boy in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in New York City, as he could not care for him. Buchwald was soon placed in foster homes, and lived in several, including a Queens boarding house for sick children (he had rickets because of poor nutrition). It was operated by Seventh-day Adventists. He stayed in the foster home until he was 5.
Buchwald was eventually reunited with his father and sisters; the family settled in Hollis, a residential community in Queens. Buchwald did not graduate from Forest Hills High School, and ran away from home at age 17.
He wanted to join the United States Marine Corps during World War II but was too young to join without parental or legal guardian consent. He bribed a drunk with half a pint of whiskey to sign as his legal guardian. From October 1942 to October 1945, Buchwald served with the Marines as part of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing. He spent two years in the Pacific Theater and was discharged from the service as a sergeant. He said of his time in the Marines, "In the Marines, they don't have much use for humorists, they beat my brains in."
On his return, Buchwald enrolled at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles on the G.I. Bill, despite not having graduated from high school. At USC he became managing editor of the campus magazine Wampus; he also wrote a column for the college newspaper, the Daily Trojan. The university permitted him to continue his studies after learning he had not graduated from high school, but deemed him ineligible for a degree. After establishing his national reputation and winning the Pulitzer Prize, he was invited as a commencement speaker in 1993 and received an honorary doctorate from the university.
In 1949, Buchwald left USC and bought a one-way ticket to Paris. He got a job as a correspondent for Variety in Paris. In January 1950, he took a sample column to the offices of the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune. Titled "Paris After Dark", it was filled with scraps of offbeat information about Parisian nightlife. Buchwald was hired and joined the editorial staff as a restaurant and nightclub reviewer. His column caught on quickly, and in 1951 Buchwald started another column, "Mostly About People". They were fused into one under the title "Europe's Lighter Side". Buchwald's columns soon began to attract readers on both sides of the Atlantic.
In postwar Paris, Buchwald met many American expatriate writers, going about with Janet Flanner, E.B. White, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Thornton Wilder. He also had brief encounters with the artist Pablo Picasso, writer Ernest Hemingway, directors Orson Welles and Mike Todd, actress Audrey Hepburn, and attorney Roy Cohn.
In November 1952, Buchwald wrote a column in which he attempted to explain the Thanksgiving holiday to the French, using garbled French translations such as "Kilometres Deboutish" for Myles Standish; Buchwald considered it his favorite column. He published it every Thanksgiving during his lifetime.
Buchwald enjoyed the notoriety he received when U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's press secretary, James Hagerty, took seriously a spoof press conference report claiming that reporters asked questions about the president's breakfast habits. After Hagerty called his own conference to denounce the article as "unadulterated rot", Buchwald famously retorted, "Hagerty is wrong. I write adulterated rot." On August 24, 1959, Time magazine, in reviewing the history of the European edition of The Herald Tribune, reported that Buchwald's column had achieved an "institutional quality".
While in Paris, Buchwald became the only correspondent to substantively interview famous American singer Elvis Presley, who had entered the U.S. Army. They met at the Prince de Galles Hotel, where the soon-to-be Sergeant Presley was staying during a week-end off from his army stint in Germany. Presley's impromptu performances at the piano at Le Lido nightclub, as well as his singing for the showgirls after most of the customers had left, became legendary after Buchwald included it in his memoir, I'll Always Have Paris (1995).
Buchwald returned to the United States in 1962. He wrote as a columnist for The Washington Post, frequently commenting on the political scene. When once asked where he got his ideas, he said simply that he read the newspaper every day. He could not make up the absurd situations that were reported. His column was syndicated by Tribune Media Services. His column appeared in more than 550 newspapers at its height. He also wrote memoirs and other books, a total of more than 30 in his lifetime. He also contributed fumetti to Marvel Comics' Crazy Magazine, which tore apart statistics regarding 1970s campus life.
During his time in Paris, Buchwald met Ann McGarry, and they married. She was an Irish-American apprentice couturier from Pennsylvania. After returning to the United States, they later adopted three children. They lived in Washington, D.C., where he wrote for The Washington Post. They spent most summers at their house in Vineyard Haven on Martha's Vineyard. After 40 years of marriage, the couple separated, and then decided to get a divorce. However, before the divorce proceedings could start, Ann was diagnosed with lung cancer, and passed away in 1994.
Buchwald had a cameo in Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief (1955). Near the beginning of the movie, an issue of the Paris Herald Tribune is shown in close-up to highlight a column, bylined by Buchwald, about jewel thefts on the French Riviera, which sets up the plot.
He contributed to the English dialogue of Jacques Tati's Playtime.[10] Buchwald also had a cameo role in a 1972 episode, "Moving Target", of the TV series Mannix. He is shown in Frederick Wiseman's 1983 film The Store delivering a tribute to Stanley Marcus, the store's owner.
In 1988, Buchwald and partner Alain Bernheim filed suit against Paramount Pictures in a controversy over the Eddie Murphy film Coming to America. In the Buchwald v. Paramount lawsuit, Buchwald claimed Paramount had stolen his script treatment. He won, was awarded damages, and accepted a settlement from Paramount. The case was the subject of a 1992 book, Fatal Subtraction: The Inside Story of Buchwald v. Paramount.
In Buchwald's later years, his detractors characterized the column as hackneyed, tiresome and not funny. Political analyst Norman Ornstein in 1991 said he thought Buchwald's column was more popular "outside the Beltway"; others disagreed.
Roy Bode, editor of the Dallas Times Herald, said that when his paper canceled Buchwald's column in 1989, the editors did not receive a single letter of protest. By contrast, when the paper cancelled the comic strip Zippy the Pinhead, so many readers complained that the editors were compelled to bring it back.
In September 2005, Timothy Noah wrote in Slate, "Yes, Buchwald still writes his column. No, it hasn't been funny for some time."
Buchwald underwent hospitalization twice for mental disorders: once in 1963 for severe depression. In 1987, he was hospitalized for what was then diagnosed as an extreme episode of bipolar disorder, which he had probably had for years. He publicly recounted these experiences in 1999.
In 2000, at age 74, Buchwald suffered a stroke. He was hospitalized for more than two months. On February 16, 2006, the Associated Press reported that Buchwald had had a leg amputated below the knee and was staying at Washington Home and Hospice. The amputation was reportedly necessary because of poor circulation in the leg, resulting from diabetes.
Buchwald invited radio talk show presenter Diane Rehm to interview him. During the show, which aired on February 24, 2006, he revealed his decision to discontinue hemodialysis, which had previously been initiated to treat kidney failure, another result of his having diabetes mellitus. He described his decision as his "last hurrah", stating that, "If you have to go, the way you go is a big deal." He reported that he was "very happy with his choices" and was eating at McDonald's on a regular basis.
Buchwald was later interviewed by Miles O'Brien of CNN, in a segment aired on March 31, 2006. Buchwald discussed his living will, which documented his wishes not to be revived if he fell into a coma. As of the date of that interview, Buchwald was still writing a periodic column. In the interview, he described a dream in which he was waiting to take his "final plane ride".
Buchwald was interviewed by Fox News' Chris Wallace for a segment on May 14, 2006's edition of Fox News Sunday.
In June 2006, Buchwald left the hospice. He was again interviewed by Rehm and reported that his kidney was working. He said that he "blesses him every morning. Some people bless their hearts, I bless my kidney." He reported that he was looking forward to getting a new leg and visiting Martha's Vineyard. In July 2006, Buchwald returned to his summer home in Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard. While there, he completed a book titled Too Soon to Say Goodbye, about the five months he spent in the hospice. Eulogies that were prepared by his friends, colleagues, and family members and were never delivered (or not delivered until later) are included in the book.
On November 3, 2006, television news reporter Kyra Phillips interviewed Buchwald for CNN. Phillips had known Buchwald since 1989, when she had first interviewed him. On November 22, 2006, Buchwald was again featured on Rehm's show. He described himself as a "poster boy for hospices – because I lived."
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In December 2006, in his final interview, he told nurse/writer Terry Ratner that he was also a poster boy for nurses. The article, "The 'Art' of Saying Goodbye", appeared in the January 2007 issues of Nursing Spectrum and NurseWeek, national nursing publications.
Buchwald died of kidney failure on January 17, 2007, at his son Joel's home in Washington, D.C. The next day the website of The New York Times posted a video obituary in which Buchwald said: "Hi. I'm Art Buchwald, and I just died."
In 1977, he received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.
In 1982, Buchwald was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary.
In 1991, he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.[
In 1991, he received the World Humour Award, from the Workshop Library on World Humour.[
In 1994, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[
Buchwald published numerous anthologies and collections of his columns, as well as memoirs.
Paris After Dark (Imprimerie du Centre 1950. Also published by Herald Tribune, European Ed., S. A., 1953)
Art Buchwald's Paris (Lion Library, 1956)
I Chose Caviar (Victor Gollancz, 1957)
The Brave Coward (Harper, 1957)
More Caviar (Victor Gollancz, 1958)
A Gift from the Boys (Harper, 1958)
Don't Forget to Write (World Pub. Co., 1960)
How Much is that in Dollars? (World Pub. Co., 1961)
Is it Safe to Drink the Water? (PBK Crest Books, 1963)
I Chose Capitol Punishment (World Pub. Co., 1963)
... and Then I Told the President: The Secret Papers of Art Buchwald (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965)
Son of the Great Society (Putnam, 1966)
Have I Ever Lied to You?. New York: Putnam's Sons. 1968 – via Internet Archive.
The Establishment is Alive and Well in Washington (Putnam, 1969)
Counting Sheep; The Log and the Complete Play: Sheep on the Runway (Putnam, 1970)
Oh, to be a Swinger (Vintage, 1970)
Getting High in Government Circles (Putnam, 1971)
I Never Danced at the White House (Putnam, 1973)
"I Am Not a Crook" (Putnam, 1974)
The Bollo Caper: A Fable for Children of All Ages (Doubleday, 1974)
Irving's Delight: At Last! a Cat Story for the Whole Family! (McKay, 1975)
Washington Is Leaking (Putnam, 1976)
Down the Seine and Up the Potomac. New York: Putnam's Sons. 1977 – via Internet Archive.
Best Cartoons of the World Miller Collection (Brown University) (Atlas World Press Review, 1978)
Art Buchwald by Leonard Probst, transcript of an interview conducted by Leonard Probst, March 31 and April 1, 1978. (American Jewish Committee, Oral History Library, 1978)
The Buchwald Stops Here (Putnam, 1979)
Seems Like Yesterday Ann Buchwald interrupted by Art Buchwald (Putnam, 1980)
Laid Back in Washington (Putnam, 1981)
While Reagan Slept (Putnam, 1983)
You Ask, Buchwald Answers (Listen & Learn U.S.A.!, 1983)
The Official Bank-Haters' Handbook also by Joel D. Joseph (Natl Pr Books, 1984)
"You Can Fool All of the People All the Time" (Putnam, 1985)
I Think I Don't Remember (Putnam, 1987)
Whose Rose Garden Is It Anyway? (Putnam, 1989)
Lighten Up, George (Putnam, 1991)
Leaving Home: A Memoir (Putnam, 1994)
I'll Always Have Paris: A Memoir (Putnam, 1995)
Stella in Heaven: Almost a Novel (Putnam, 2000)
We'll Laugh Again. New York: Putnam's Sons. 2002. ISBN – via Internet Archive.
Beating Around the Bush (Seven Stories, 2005)
Too Soon to Say Goodbye (Bantam Books 2006) ISBN 1-58836-574-3
Legacy OS has lot of applications but it cannot configure Wireless Network.
Legacy OS
Legacy OS Linux is a Modern up to Date Operating System for older PC's
After a 6 year hiatus LegacyOS is back! Optimized for Monitors 1600 x 900 and smaller!
Now based on antiX / Debian Bullseye 64 Bit.
After a long development period LegacyOS 2023 is now available for download.
As with previous releases LegacyOS uses the Ice Window Manager (icewm) and ROX / PCmanFM File Managers. All included Ice Window Manager Themes have been created for this release.
A useful selection of Applications are included by default.
VLC,
MPV,
Strawberry,
Peek, FreetuxTV,
OnlyOffice,
Scribus,
Gimp,
Inkscape,
Firefox-ESR,
Thunderbird,
Transmission just to name a few.
Also available for download through the Synaptic Package Manager are the Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge Web Browsers.
Unlike previous releases LegacyOS 2023 will receive regular updates.
To Login User = demo | Password = demo
Install or run live from USB or DVD
Anthony (Tony) Benn
Anthony (Tony) Benn is 100 years today, if he lived.
Ukraine
Monday, January 2, 2023
Monday, July 31, 2023
Henry Steel Olcott
Henry Steel Olcott and Comparative Religions
His contemporaries were
1. Thomas Jefferson
2. Carl Sagan
3. Albert Einstein
4.Mark Twain
5. Bertram Russel
1. Agricultural Scientist
2. Military Investigator of fraud in the army.
Had malaria during civil war.
Signal Officer to begin with during American Civil War.
Later promoted to Colonel.
Asked to help in Abraham Lincoln assassination.
3. Lawyer
4. Journalist and a writer.
5. Spiritualist and a healer.
Marie Russack Hotchener
Father came in astral form (in dreams) to tell her to contact H.S.Olcott.
She booked the rooms.
She bought the cloths
She read the Key to Theosophy.
Follow the principles of Theosophy and do not follow the personality.
She remained as the secretary to Olcott until his death.
Logic, reason and empiricism as opposed to authority, tradition dogma and revelation (in other words the tradition of the Church).
Oriental man in turban or Mahatmas.
Mahatma Letters by Blavatsky. She had seen the Mahatmas as a child.
Mahatmas are astral bodies or mediums.
Founded the Theosophical Society.
Investigation of science, philosophy and comparative religion.
Founded in 1875.
Blavatsky, Olcott, Judge and A.P.Sennett
Annie Besant
Born in 1932.
Married in 1860 with 4 children and two girls died in childhood.
Divorced.
Died in 1907.
Came to Ceylon on May 12, 1880.
Visited on 25 May, Wijayananda Monastery in Galle.
Buddhist flag was designed in 1885.
He was into healing and mesmerism and healed over 8000.
He was into occult science and was tolerant of all religions including Muslim religion. He was once asked to talk about Islam (he had never studied) and he managed it without offending any in the audience.
He was compared to a Bodhisattva but he had lot of animosity including Anagarika Dharmapala.
He had helped to form over 4000 schools in India and Ceylon. Average Hindu respects him more than an average Sinhala Buddhist.
He may have foreseen religious animosity developing in Ceylon.
The Theosophical Society is defunct in Ceylon.
He lived a simple and frugal life unlike the present Buddhist monks with political authority
Sunday, October 8, 2023
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Born 9 September 1826
Died 20 November 1910
War and Piece
Anna Karenina
Sketches of Sivastapol
Based on Crimean War.
His approach to non violent protests for social change influenced Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, junior.
He was deeply religious man and followed Christianity.
Currently Russians are Orthodox Christians.
Greatest writer of all times.
Towering figure in Russian literature.
Charles Dicken lived at the same time.
Like a wise old grandpa with amazing stories.
CD was a poor city boy whereas LT was a country gentleman. Dicken wrote monthly or weekly.
LT wrote epic long stories like family, society and politics. CD believed in life opportunities and was very optimistic.
LT believed in mystical forces within self and was recklessly pessimistic.
CD dreaming of future and fortune(capitalistic outlook) and LT looking inside and purpose in life.
Dickens stories are overtly sentimental whereas LT overtly moralistic (eastern approach).
Egalitarianism was a dominant philosophy in the west. The most famous was of Karl Marx equality of rights of mankind.
The sacrifice of soldiers was normal in war and the glory went to the generals and kings.
Two who lived through this period were LT and CD who captured the mood in literary sense.
CD
Good Expectations
Tales of Two Cities
Christmas Carol
LT
Pioneered art of story telling by traumatization.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Psychological depth and dramatic structure in his literature and journalistic writing.
Leo Tolstoy
Sociological and more comparable to Dickens.
Childhood, boyhood and youth is modelled on CD's David Copperfield.
LT went to France and met Victor Hugo.
Dickens wrote about ugly side of industrial revolution while LT wrote about ugly side of history warfare.
Likes
English peasants vs Russian counts
Father was sent to prison for unpaid debts.
Count into an aristocratic family.
Dickens troubles with money.
Tolstoy troubled with life.
His mother died when he was two and his father died when he was nine.
What is the purpose of this life?
CD worked 10 hours as a 15 year old.
Learned how to write shorthand.
He became a journalist.
Started writing short stories.
He rose up the social ladder.
Tolstoy was a sloppy student.
He quit oriental languages in the university.
His life was easy.
He pursued alcohol, women and gambling.
He realized he need a bigger purpose in life and joined the army to fighting the Crimean war in 1850.
He used this experience in his masterpiece in War and Peace.
Horrors of war changed his perspective in life.
Lead to pessimism.
Dickens met Victor Hugo and Alexander Duma in France. Dickens was global figure.
CD had 10 children and LT had 13.
LT met Victor Hugo 15 years after CD.
Huge impact on him reading les miserables.
He returnec to Russia and started writing War and Peace.
In 1853 CD had a midlife crisis and left his wife with 10 children and married an 18 year girl.
Dickens had a stroke and died 58 in 1870.
Unlike Dickens Tolstoy crisis was the purpose of life. In his 50s he disowned his novels and confessed his religious belief.
Struggles for meaning constantly shifting from Arthur Schopenhauer's negation of self and Christian belief.
Died in 1910 aged 82 in a railway station.
Maxim Gorky
