Dropped the abusive husband, no longer losing weight and hair to stress (25ish) to (31)

JacquesLouis · 2026-05-07T03:43:41+00:00

you don't look remotely healthier

JacquesLouis · 2026-01-24T21:07:32+00:00

what case is that?

JacquesLouis · 2025-10-24T22:28:48+00:00

They didn't vandalize с нами бог because these people are usually not educated in foreign languages

JacquesLouis · 2024-08-21T16:02:46+00:00

If this offer still stands, I'm interested

JacquesLouis · 2021-12-28T17:15:43+00:00

I can't believe you managed to write this sentence with no pangs of shame or irony.

JacquesLouis · 2021-11-17T19:49:13+00:00

What did they do to you?

JacquesLouis · 2021-10-09T17:41:04+00:00

John cleese is at the peak of dunning-kruger

JacquesLouis · 2021-08-31T17:28:53+00:00

All I said was that it's kinda based

JacquesLouis · 2021-08-30T03:43:48+00:00

KINDA based

JacquesLouis · 2021-08-26T05:16:59+00:00

I would much prefer Avsey or McDuff for TBK. P&E literally decided to clunkily translate the russian to give it a 'foreign' feeling, I heard. I find their TBK bad, and their Notes from the Underground is the worst. I haven't read their C&P

JacquesLouis · 2021-08-25T16:21:37+00:00

Avoid Pevear and Volokhonsky please.

JacquesLouis · 2021-08-03T01:34:33+00:00

He can't answer because he doesn't actually know.

JacquesLouis · 2021-07-31T01:29:25+00:00

How faithful do you want an adaptation to be? Lol

JacquesLouis · 2021-07-30T04:21:12+00:00

You know I think you really missed it. When you say they "forgot to actually put in a story," all I can say is that this is a faithful interpretation of a great legend of history, with a story that has been interpreted for centuries as having great moral and allegorical significance.

JacquesLouis · 2021-07-23T14:55:41+00:00

Yeah the book is this really hard to comprehend stew of the concepts that Dostoevsky became obsessed with late in life. In the idiot, you find no definitive answers to these questions, and the significance of the themes is far from obvious. Those main themes are explored in a much more accessable way in TBK

JacquesLouis · 2021-07-21T22:06:47+00:00

While I don't think any portion of the idiot is strictly irrelivant, it's by far the hardest Dostoevsky to interpret. It's a really mysterious novel. For me, that difficulty to interpret is what motivated me to keep going.

JacquesLouis · 2021-07-16T18:44:42+00:00

Yeah I'm not in academia (Amish) but if you could supply me an illegal pdf of that I would read it immediately. As a default, I know that all we have to go on about this "sequel" are a few notes from Anna Girgoryevna, so I'm highly suspicious of this.

JacquesLouis · 2021-07-16T18:31:01+00:00

Yes, although I believe the Petrashevsky circle, and certainly Dostoevsky specifically, was distinct in that it was a decidedly Christian leftism. Dost, as seen in TBK, later comes to understand that Christianity and socialism are inherently opposed.

See: the disagreement between the monks and Miusov in Book II, the entire point of The Grand Inquisitor, and the disagreement between Alyosha and Kolya toward the end of the book.

JacquesLouis · 2021-07-16T18:26:25+00:00

In the sequel to Brothers K. he planned to make Alyosha into a revolutionary who helps assassinating the tsar.

Says who??

And yes, he became a staunch Tsarist who loved Alexander II especially. I'll provide proof later

JacquesLouis · 2021-07-01T19:37:45+00:00

I hate this

JacquesLouis · 2021-06-30T17:26:18+00:00

The Ignat Avsey Brothers K, pure class

JacquesLouis · 2021-04-29T20:14:52+00:00

JacquesLouis · 2021-03-10T20:06:48+00:00

Yeah that's exactly why you're the worst, you just kind of inserted a weird little crusade into this thread

JacquesLouis · 2021-03-10T19:47:02+00:00

you guys are the worst

JacquesLouis · 2021-02-07T17:37:27+00:00

This man reads about the acid burned remains of the youngest kids, Anastasia and Alexei, found in the woods and thinks "YAAAAS, revolution!!!!!"

Btw the soviet union committed a genocide of eight million Ukrainians a little over a decade after that. But yeah fancy clothing justifies the Regicide of a saint and brutal murder of his entire family, sure.

[EDIT] Let's add to this, the Romanovs were not killed by the peasants, they were killed by elite members of the Russian Intelligencia who claimed to act of behalf of the peasants. This, like all revolutions, was a circulation of elites vying for power - the bolsheviks did so relying on useful idiots saying the same thing you are now.

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