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When Hell freezes over and Tolstoy learns to skate

a literary investigation

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Feb 05, 2025
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John Collier's 1894 painting “The Devil skating when Hell freezes over” has such an impeccable ironic aura that it's hard to believe it was created more than a century ago, and rightfully so because it was not, neither in 1894 nor by John Collier, or mayhap was, chort knows—the gossip web is so wonderfully confusing at times!

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