chaos. Also the stories of Gogol and Pushkin have an ethereal quality that reminds me of Bridge to Terabithia [by Katherine Paterson (HarperCollins, 1977)] and Tuck Everlasting [by Natalie Babbitt (FSG, 1975)]. The Russians also were phenomenal with doubles and the use of subtexts (like Tolstoy reading Flaubert , or Dostoevsky reading