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Vronsky has just fallen during a steeplechase, and Anna is in shock. Karenin offers her his arm and she, after finding out that Vronsky is not hurt, docilely accepts it. In their carriage Karenin points out that her behavior was improper, and she smiles. She had smiled before, when a similar suggestion was made, but now a disclosure is impending — and indeed will occur in an instant. Still, Karenin lets himself be deluded once more, for just the length of that instant: lets himself think that she will call his suspicions ridiculous, and everything will be all right again. And Tolstoy comments: “What he knew was so dreadful that now he was ready to believe anything”(Anna Karenina225).
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Bencivenga, E. (2001). Knowledge Versus Belief. In: Exercises in Constructive Imagination. Topoi Library, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0952-2_2
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