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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I have a really terrible story about love. I may tell it one day. It is a hard story to tell though, so I just though I would bring it up to be prodded into telling it some other time.
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antitype · . Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 292

Now is the time, my friend. Here I am exposing my soul to some people I barely know!
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seryogin · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:25 am Post subject:

That settles it. I'm starting a relationship thread later today, after I wake up, ten hours or so from now. Yea, I really do sleep that long. I don't have a job, I can do it.

And, antitype, were you perchance thinking of The Idiot when you brought up Dostoyevskii?
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antitype · . Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 292

I was mostly thinking of Notes from Underground, actually. It's the book that made me realize this about Dostoevsky.
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seryogin · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:32 am Post subject:

I like Notes from the Underground, because it was Nietzschean before Nietzsche.

The Idiot, though, that's probably an ideal novel. It still puzzles me how Fyodor Mikhailovich could find a character as perfect as Knyaz Myshkin and make him believable. And that's not even speaking about the other characters, who are genius; there are no other words for them.
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