Notes from Underground for me and the opening paragraph was all it took to know Fyodor was my people:
I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I
believe my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my
disease, and do not know for certain what ails me. I don’t consult a
doctor for it, and never have, though I have a respect for medicine and
doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, sufficiently so to
respect medicine, anyway (I am well-educated enough not to be
superstitious, but I am superstitious). No, I refuse to consult a
doctor from spite. That you probably will not understand. Well, I
understand it, though. Of course, I can’t explain who it is precisely
that I am mortifying in this case by my spite: I am perfectly well
aware that I cannot “pay out” the doctors by not consulting them; I
know better than anyone that by all this I am only injuring myself and
no one else. But still, if I don’t consult a doctor it is from spite.
My liver is bad, well—let it get worse!
Oh yes. There's a reason The Idiot is on most lists of 10 best novels. The Brothers had a wonderful romance and sentiment and that conversation with the devil.. I am a woman and couldn't resist.
Amongst the geniuses in the arts. There's a small number heads above the rest. Shakespeare, Michaelangelo, Dostoevsky....
Brothers Karamazov is mine. Changed my life actually.
Notes from Underground for me and the opening paragraph was all it took to know Fyodor was my people:
I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me. I don’t consult a doctor for it, and never have, though I have a respect for medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, sufficiently so to respect medicine, anyway (I am well-educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am superstitious). No, I refuse to consult a doctor from spite. That you probably will not understand. Well, I understand it, though. Of course, I can’t explain who it is precisely that I am mortifying in this case by my spite: I am perfectly well aware that I cannot “pay out” the doctors by not consulting them; I know better than anyone that by all this I am only injuring myself and no one else. But still, if I don’t consult a doctor it is from spite. My liver is bad, well—let it get worse!
Oh yes. There's a reason The Idiot is on most lists of 10 best novels. The Brothers had a wonderful romance and sentiment and that conversation with the devil.. I am a woman and couldn't resist.
Amongst the geniuses in the arts. There's a small number heads above the rest. Shakespeare, Michaelangelo, Dostoevsky....
Don't forget the fourth ninja turtle, Rafael.