War and Peace Week 50: Epilogue, Part I

I’m going to open today’s email with a little bit of a necessary spoiler: the end of the first epilogue is our final glimpse of the characters we’ve come to know and (reluctantly) love over the course of the last year and 1,200 some pages. The second epilogue is, for the most part, a philosophical conclusion to Tolstoy’s ideas. 

This means, here at the e…