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Dead Souls (Everyman's Library)

Nikolai Gogol

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

George mentioned returning to Gogol's novel repeatedly because he loved it.

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I go back to Gogol's Dead Souls a lot just because I love it so much and I have never been able to figure out why.

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George mentioned returning to Gogol's novel repeatedly because he loved it.

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I go back to Gogol's Dead Souls a lot just because I love it so much and I have never been able to figure out why.

Timcast IRL

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Timcast IRL

The speaker talked about a Russian guy in the book who wants to be an aristocrat and buys all the dead serfs because if you have dead serfs, you still have to pay taxes on them until the end of the year.

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It's very weird.

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The speaker talked about a Russian guy in the book who wants to be an aristocrat and buys all the dead serfs because if you have dead serfs, you still have to pay taxes on them until the end of the year.

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It's very weird.

So this Russian guy, he wants to be like an aristocrat.

So what he does is he goes around and he buys all the dead serfs

because if you have dead serfs, you still have to pay taxes on them

until the end of the year.

And so everyone takes it because he buys them at half price.

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