Still can't understand how Ashton could leave her.

@slog hahahaha!

I want this for my living room.

I feel fortunate to understand this incredibly obscure reference!

@tonyb - My rule of thumb is: if I understand it, it's not that obscure.

@gormat - it also helps that I'm Russian - in fact I have only ever read this book IN Russian ;)

I have a really cool edition of it where all of the parts that were cut out by KGB censors are in an italic font. It's really fascinating to read - sometimes whole chapters or paragraphs will be cut out - other times, it will just be a single word from a sentence...