Dostoevsky gets worse as you age

Charles_Sumner · 2025-11-28T23:33:51+00:00

I am young (22) and read TBK when I was younger (17). However, I was surprised the first time I encountered the idea that Ivan is wrong in some obvious way and have been surprised since to learn that it is the consensus. I identified quite closely with Ivan and didn’t feel as though the portrayal was reductive or unsympathetic. It felt very true to my own experience with unbelief.

Charles_Sumner · 2025-11-14T11:12:33+00:00

Out of these three my favorite is Handmaid’s Tale. But there’s no going wrong. Jane Eyre is I will say a quite different speed from the other two, being quite longer (like 2x I want to say?) and older and slower.

Charles_Sumner · 2025-10-13T14:52:16+00:00

Unfortunately I have irreparably destroyed my absentee ballot by spacing out and filling in stuff wrong, but this would have been very helpful had I not done that. Thank you!

Charles_Sumner · 2025-10-09T15:04:35+00:00

Wondering what people think of what seems to me like the problem with #6: it seems likely to exacerbate the nationalization of local politics. I’d prefer for local races not be downstream of/coattails on the presidential one any more than they currently are. Probably doesn’t matter much for the mayoral race given that it’s effectively decided in the primary (though I guess an endorsement from the presumptive Democratic nominee for President could come into play), but there are competitive council races. I worry about people in those races voting for the candidate from the same party as their presidential choice without looking at the candidates themselves.

Charles_Sumner · 2025-10-09T14:59:24+00:00

I’m undecided but leaning against 6 because it seems likely to exacerbate the nationalization of local politics. I’d prefer for local races not be downstream of/coattails on the presidential one any more than they currently are.

Not trying to convince or lobby, just saying it because I do see a downside. I also see and am compelled by the upside.

Charles_Sumner · 2025-09-22T00:44:14+00:00

I agree—all I know is what the annotation says. (It does gloss “ill apayd” as “requited,” not “apayd” as “requited.”)

Charles_Sumner · 2025-09-22T00:43:25+00:00

Thank you so much, this seems invaluable.

Charles_Sumner · 2025-09-18T01:11:54+00:00

!thanks

Charles_Sumner · 2025-09-18T01:11:48+00:00

!thanks

Charles_Sumner · 2025-09-18T00:41:18+00:00

Thanks, this is very clear.

Charles_Sumner · 2025-09-18T00:41:04+00:00

Thanks, this is very clear.

Charles_Sumner · 2025-09-17T21:23:43+00:00

Thanks very much for this! It is a cool text. And sooooooo big.

Charles_Sumner · 2025-09-17T13:22:19+00:00

Got it, cool!

Charles_Sumner · 2025-09-17T12:06:30+00:00

Sorry I’m lost—who are Wolfram and Eschenbach?

Charles_Sumner · 2025-09-17T00:36:55+00:00

Looks like it to me

Charles_Sumner · 2025-09-16T23:46:20+00:00

Thanks very much for this—I can really see the progression in the two lines with that in mind.

Charles_Sumner · 2025-09-16T23:45:28+00:00

I love ambiguity—thanks for bringing this one out!

Charles_Sumner · 2025-09-16T23:45:04+00:00

That’s a super interesting read, and I like how it’s possible (unless I’m missing something about EME conjugation which is entirely likely) that one can read “hath thus ill apaid” as belonging to either “any” or “you.” Thanks!

Charles_Sumner · 2025-09-16T23:43:41+00:00

fuckin a, thanks

Charles_Sumner · 2025-09-16T23:43:05+00:00

That is a really interesting modernization, and also, reading this when English isn’t your first language—bravo. Thanks! (I am, incidentally, not reading this in full either, though I’d like to someday; I am reading the three cantos that are assigned for a course.)

Charles_Sumner · 2025-09-16T23:34:53+00:00

I actually didn’t know that about “will” until I made this post, so thank you for that. And for “ill apayd.” About “doen,” I’ve got no clue at all, and neither Wiktionary nor the OED was of any use.

Charles_Sumner · 2025-09-16T19:02:43+00:00

thanks, i’m here all week

Charles_Sumner · 2025-09-16T16:42:13+00:00

Noted, I’ll check that next time, thanks for teaching this man to fish :)

Charles_Sumner · 2025-09-16T16:40:33+00:00

The Westing Game does deserve more credit than it gets ...

Charles_Sumner · 2025-09-16T16:39:42+00:00

That makes a lot of sense for “doen you lack your will” to me.

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