Tolstoy:
A man who’d always intended to suffer.
Not from some long-standing desire
to test the resistance of his will – no.
His Intention to Suffer
was a despotic one – he intended that
his teachings, his preachings, his reachings – all three
be - Irresistible
and make his message holy in the eyes of man, 
make himself holy in the eyes of –
        disgusted
Oh but
this does not discount
the man of the man, the language, the lion, the
Sounding Bell of All this World,
as our man Gorky will explain –
Come, let him explain (or at least like just portray) for us, this
Man for All Mankind.

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