I would like to know more about Dost's end if you come across some sources.
The point, as I seem to return to so often that it may be the theme of what I write; perhaps because it poses so many difficulties for me as a relatively "hermetic" person is this: That Personhood is irreducibly complex; and it seems to be the "crown of creation" as Gracie Slick once placed--sarcastically as always--on one of her early album covers; but there is no reason logically to suppose that said Universe does not originate in Personhood. Or what one might call hyper-personhood; the First Cause exceeding in all things as above and beyond its effects. And things are so set up that with entropy that we can never challenge, much less exceed, the speed limit imposed on us by "supra-nature."
Aside, re: Grace Slick: "Would you buy a used car from this woman?"
"Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?" We critics are so sensitive. Snide asides to our audience, which always likes to see someone skewered. The gladitorial games are now editorial games.
Moreover am I full of new wine? But in an old wineskin? Welll, old is beyond dispute. Do I contaminate the sweetness of the new wine with layers of yeast? These are mighty questions which no amount of research or self-examination or other peoples' opinions will answer.
Lord? (a person in the Bible)
From my reading of Dostoevsky's life it is a novel needing to be written. It must be true, to be a great writer you need to have much tragedy in your life.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I can tell Dostoevsky died of a lung hemorrhage complicated by his life long epilepsy.
Among those who lost their lives to TB were writers Fyodor Dostoevsky and Jane Austen, composer Frederic Chopin, and Presidents Andrew Jackson and Ulysses S. Grant.