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repulsive
in
Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
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(Author's footnote)] Tolstoy begins by saying that throughout life Shakespeare has aroused in him "an irresistible repulsion and tedium"†
Conscious that the opinion of the civilized world is against him, he has made one attempt after another on Shakespeare's works, reading and re-reading them in Russian, English and German; but "I invariably underwent the same feelings; repulsion, weariness and bewilderment".†
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Tolstoy's remark that marriage is "slavery, satiety, repulsion" and means putting up with the proximity of "ugliness, dirtiness, smell, sores", is matched by Lear's well-known outburst: But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends; There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit, Burning, scalding, stench, consumption, etc., etc. And though Tolstoy could not foresee it when he wrote his essay on Shakespeare, even the ending of his life—the sudden unplanned flight across country, accompanied only by a faithful daughter, the death in a cottage in a strange village—seems to have in it a sort of phantom reminiscence of LEAR.†

Definitions:

(1) (repulsive as in: she found him repulsive)
very unpleasant or causing disgust
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)