02-28-2007, 03:59 PM
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is not this trim anymore!
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: New England
Posts: 21,709
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Originally Posted by wyndhy
what's so odd about reading what's considered to be the world's premier existentialist work by a man considered to be the best russian author ever and certainly one of the most influential 19th century novelists?
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Well first of all...It contains an all-out assault on Enlightenment rationalism and the idea of progress which foreshadows many such assaults in the mid-to-late twentieth century! How odd is that?
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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.
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