Feisty, blustery Rudi is a lovely counterpart throughout to the quieter, more introverted Lev; but it will be Lev who returns to Rudi in the end, with a plan for the future.
"But it's nice," Lev says.
We're not done with the best of 2011 lists, but here are Lev Grossman's picks for 2012.
The main eye-catcher was Lev Mouhkine, a Russian heavyweight.
One couple who refinanced twice this year is Lev Verbitsky and Katharina Guel, a husband and wife from Hamden, Conn.
(His name is Lev, he is played by Adam Driver, and this is the only time I will mention Lena Dunham or "Girls" in this review).
"I" and "Lev" do not refer to the same things (even though my name is Lev).
Other Russian physicists well-known in low temperature physics are Lev Landau, Vitaly Ginsburg, and Alexey Abrikosov, who all essentially contributed to the theoretical understanding of superfluidity and superconductivity.
Among the positive reviewers was Lev Grossman of Time, who dubbed Martin "the American Tolkien".
Another variation of the game includes not being allowed to say two-syllable numbers, like "seven" becomes "sev", "eleven" is "lev", and so forth.
It wasn't Lev crying or pooping noisily (though he was also doing that).
