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Late-voice dive — finished English translations (working draft)

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Canonical English for 37 late-Tolstoy passages (letters, diaries, anthology prose) that have no published English translation. Russian is byte-locked from the dossier; British-English register; faithful and plain. Editorial insertions in [square brackets]. Where the locked span is a fragment, the immediate full sentence is given for context.


THREAD 1 — the constraint named

key-sholom-aleichem — 1903-05-06, S. N. Rabinovich (Sholom Aleichem)

con-chas-cant-print — 1907-09-05, Editorial board of «Час»

con-censored-lit-idle — 1904-01-14, diary

con-banned-printed-england — 1902-08-20, A. P. Naugolnikov

con-two-track-strategy — 1903-12-18, M. A. Taube

con-tarsakov-samizdat — 1909-01-11, F. Tarsakov

con-davydov-uncensorable — 1908-11-13, N. V. Davydov

con-gogol-double-bind — 1909-03-05, V. A. Posse

con-bolkvadze-predict — 1910-02-09, M. G. Bolkvadze

con-kazmichov-full-text — 1909-07-23, P. P. Kazmichov


THREAD 1 — the channel mechanics

chan-rule-only-through-you — 1900-12-12, V. G. Chertkov

chan-public-sole-node — 1906-01-14, Editors of «Новое время» and «Русские ведомости» (public notice)

chan-abroad-rationale — 1905-04-17, V. G. Chertkov

chan-all-or-nothing — 1906-02-13, V. G. Chertkov

chan-posthumous-testament — 1904-05-13, V. G. Chertkov

chan-posthumous-diary — 1909-02-04, diary

chan-stolypin-ultimatum — 1909-08-30, P. A. Stolypin

chan-router-svobodnoe-slovo — 1905-01-24, B. I. Knirsha

chan-nemogu-molchat — 1908-06-01, V. G. Chertkov

chan-herzen-model — 1906-10-02, diary

chan-gorbunov-recycle-banned — 1905-09-25, I. I. Gorbunov-Posadov

chan-chertkov-controls-all — 1909-12-19, N. N. Ge (son)


THREAD 1 — genre as encryption

enc-inoskazatelno-rejected — 1908-11-09, Paul Desjardins


THREAD 2 — the anthology in his own words

comp-mysli-announced — 1903-04-01, I. F. Timonov

comp-krug-genesis — 1904-01-19, L. L. Tolstoy (son Lev)

comp-krug-abroad-uncensored — 1904-12-19, G. A. Rusanov

comp-krug-design-principle — 1909-08-09, Jan Styka

comp-put-like-krug — 1910-07-20, M. G. Bolkvadze

comp-400-days-obligation — 1907-11-22, diary

comp-truth-simple-form-hard — 1905-12-16, diary

comp-only-what-i-published — 1909-08-25, diary

comp-daily-spiritual-practice — 1906-01-04, diary

comp-grand-monde-turn — 1909-03-20, diary


THREAD 2 — the anthology architecture

comp-krug-stated-aim — 1908-03, Circle of Reading, Preface (PSS 41)

comp-put-drops-attributions — 1910, The Path of Life, note (PSS 45)

comp-put-three-superstitions — 1910, The Path of Life, preface (PSS 45)

comp-tat-tvam-asi-schopenhauer — 1906, Circle of Reading, weekly «Единение» (PSS 41)