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The Elm Log
By Alexander Solzhenitsyn
We Were Sawing Firewood When We Picked Up An Elm Log And Gave A Cry Of Amazement. It Was A Full Year Since We Had Chopped Down The Trunk, Dragged It Along Behind A Tractor And Sawn It Up Into Logs, Which We Had Then Thrown On To Barges And Wagons, Rolled Into Stacks And Piled Up On The Ground - And Yet This Elm Log Had Still Not Given Up! A Fresh Green Shoot Had Sprouted From It With A Promise Of A Thick, Leafy Branch, Or Even A Whole New Elm Tree.
We Placed The Log On The Sawing-horse, As Though On An Executioner's Block, But We Could Not Bring Ourselves To Bite Into It With Our Saw. How Could We? That Log Cherished Life As Dearly As We Did; Indeed, Its Urge To Live Was Even Stronger Than Ours.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: The Elm Logby Alexander Solzhenitsynwe Were Sawing Firewood When We Picked Up An Elm Log And Gave A Cry Of

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: The Elm Logby Alexander Solzhenitsynwe Were Sawing Firewood When We Picked Up An Elm Log And Gave A Cry Of

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: The Elm Logby Alexander Solzhenitsynwe Were Sawing Firewood When We Picked Up An Elm Log And Gave A Cry Of

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: The Elm Logby Alexander Solzhenitsynwe Were Sawing Firewood When We Picked Up An Elm Log And Gave A Cry Of

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: The Elm Logby Alexander Solzhenitsynwe Were Sawing Firewood When We Picked Up An Elm Log And Gave A Cry Of

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: The Elm Logby Alexander Solzhenitsynwe Were Sawing Firewood When We Picked Up An Elm Log And Gave A Cry Of

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: The Elm Logby Alexander Solzhenitsynwe Were Sawing Firewood When We Picked Up An Elm Log And Gave A Cry Of

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: The Elm Logby Alexander Solzhenitsynwe Were Sawing Firewood When We Picked Up An Elm Log And Gave A Cry Of

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: The Elm Logby Alexander Solzhenitsynwe Were Sawing Firewood When We Picked Up An Elm Log And Gave A Cry Of

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: The Elm Logby Alexander Solzhenitsynwe Were Sawing Firewood When We Picked Up An Elm Log And Gave A Cry Of

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