I had to read some Gogol at some point. But
seriously, what the hell?
Sure, I’m not Russian so I can’t understand,
but I’m normally all up for epic stories of national courage (even Russian courage,
in the case of Michael Strogoff…) but isn’t Taras Bulba (not written in italics
because I’m referring to the character and not to the novel) a bit much?
Sure, your son has switched sides (a bit too
easily also), but killing him in battle without feeling at least a wee bit emotional
sounds, well, heartless. At a certain point even his comrades tell Taras that
he might want to take it down a notch but he continues to be an almost perfect
killing machine.
One would hope that at least while he’s being
burned he would stop. But he doesn’t. He keeps on yelling at his Cossacks. A
true leader. And possibly an idiot.
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