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I created a blog so I could make comments on other blogs without resorting to Anonymous. And then all the blog titles I really wanted -- Room 101, Two Plus Two Equals Five, Eh Bien Mon Prince, Sixty Seconds Worth Of Distance -- were taken. The bastards! So I went with something from my favorite chapter in my favorite book: the sequence in War and Peace when Andrei passes an old oak on his way to Otradnoe and feels as wasted and barren as the apparently dead tree, and then, on his way back to Moscow -- after overhearing Natasha talk to Sonya about how she feels like she could fly -- sees the oak again, this time bursting into spring green, and feels reborn.