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....
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.