Stop Microsoft
Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: worker201 on 25 July 2006, 23:13
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"Then you would sit down at another man's table and insult it and those who invited you. Eh?"
"Certainly not insult, but protest. I should do it with a good object. I might indirectly assist the cause of enlightenment and propaganda. It's a duty of every man to work for enlightenment and propaganda and the more harshly, perhaps, the better. I might drop a seed, an idea . . . And something might grow up from that seed. How should I be insulting them? They might be offended at first, but afterwards they'd see I'd done them a service."
from Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment
A very strange passage, because the author is clearly making fun of both speakers. And when enlightenment = propaganda, well that's a bathtub of jellyfish in and of itself. But anyway, it struck me as being kinda cool.
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Ahh yes Dostoyevsky ... if you ever understand what he means you'll be in a padded room and straight jacket staring at the cieling all day long
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He's pretty clever - somehow, he manages to make fun of his characters and empathize with them at the same time.
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It hurts my head to read his stuff :( But, yes sometimes I do get what he's saying ... or I think I do