Ghosts are, as it were, shreds and fragments of other worlds, the beginning of them. A man in health has, of course, no reason to see them, because he is above all a man of this earth and is bound for the sake of completeness and order to live only in this life. But asContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Illness and Ghosts (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
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RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: All Men are Mad (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
‘There is some truth to your observation’ the latter replied. ‘In the sense we are certainly all not infrequently like madmen, but with the slight difference that the deranged are somewhat madder, for we must draw a line. A normal man, it is true, hardly exists. Among dozens-perhaps hundreds of thousands-hardly one is to beContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: All Men are Mad (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: The Key to Youth for Women (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
“Although Pulcheria Alexandrova was forty-three, her face still retained traces of her former beauty; she looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain sensitivity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincereness of heart to old age. We add in parenthesis that to preserve all this is theContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: The Key to Youth for Women (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Fear and Loathing Overcomes the Double Murderer (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
“Fear gained more and more mastery over him, especially after this second, quite unexpected murder. He longed to run away from the place as fast as possible. And if at that moment if he had been capable of seeing and reasoning more correctly, if he had been able to realise all the difficulties of hisContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Fear and Loathing Overcomes the Double Murderer (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: A Criminal’s Failure of Will and Reasoning (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
“Almost every criminal is subject to a failure of will and reasoning power by a childish and phenomenal heedlessness at the very instant when prudence and caution are most essential. It was his conviction that this eclipse of reason and failure of willpower attacked a man like a disease, developed gradually and reached its highestContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: A Criminal’s Failure of Will and Reasoning (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Too Many Pots of Vodka and High-Flown Speeches (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
“Evidently Marmeladov was a familiar figure here and he had most likely acquired his weakness for high-flown speeches from the habit of frequently entering into conversation with strangers of all sorts in the tavern. This habit develops into a necessity in some drunkards, and especially in those who are looked after sharply and kept inContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Too Many Pots of Vodka and High-Flown Speeches (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Should He Murder the Old Hag? (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
‘I want to attempt a thing like that and I am frightened by these trifles’, he thought with an odd smile. ’Hm…yes. all is in a man’s hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that’s an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking aContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Should He Murder the Old Hag? (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Money as a Curse (Deepti Kapoor)
“Money’s a fucking curse, he said. It cuts out all the hard work. Before you had to be kind or funny or fun. Interesting or intelligent. You had to take the time to know people. You had solidarity with them. Then you’re rich. It annihilates everything. Everyone is nice to you. Everyone wants you there.Continue reading “RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Money as a Curse (Deepti Kapoor)”
RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Poverty, Ambition and the Upward Climb in India (Deepti Kapoor)
“The only thing he is guilty of is ambition. Of rising above his station. Did my father cut corners on the way? Yes. This is India. The game is rigged, the rules are stacked, you people make the rules in the first place. You already have everything, and you don’t want to share. So sometimesContinue reading “RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Poverty, Ambition and the Upward Climb in India (Deepti Kapoor)”
RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: The Vulgar New India (Deepti Kapoor)
“Sunny fit into the long line of boys she’d flirted with at school, slept with in college, all the boys she’d parked on the ridge, whose daddies were wealthy businessmen, who represented the new vulgar India her mother railed against. He fit into that line, and he transcended it. While those boys had appealed toContinue reading “RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: The Vulgar New India (Deepti Kapoor)”
