John Kuti
John Kuti
Jul 10, 2017 · 1 min read

The old Prince is clearly losing his short-term memory while the distant past of his youth keeps coming back to him instead. The older your memories, the less they serve as a reliable guide to the present. In the same way, having up-to-date intelligence is vital in war — the information in Andrei’s letter might already be obsolete as Napoleon’s army advances to Smolensk.

John Kuti

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English teacher in Saint Petersburg, Russia