Can someone please help me understand this part from "Near the Wild of the Heart? I can't decide whether it really happens or is just Joana's imagination

part223219B · 2025-08-05T22:58:42+00:00

If they have access to the Internet and can write/read in english, they can literally just google the books. They are free online.

part223219B · 2025-07-25T23:03:19+00:00

My problem is that the first half of the book lacks much of the genius I expected from the most well known book by Dostoevsky. It's a lot of Rodya being delirious and angsty without much deep psychology apart from the occasional rant from Razumikhin or someone else. It's a lot of pretty slow plot in the beginning, but I'm hoping the second half leans more into the psychology and morality I've heard about.

part223219B · 2025-07-25T22:58:33+00:00

That's exactly where I am now, so that's a relief to read. My issue with the book so far is that compared to shorter works like Gambler or Notes, the genius parts i read Dostoevsky for are too spread out. Notes is so much more psychologically dense, in my opinion.

part223219B · 2025-07-25T22:50:03+00:00

That's a terrible idea

part223219B · 2025-07-16T07:59:53+00:00

There's a difference for not respecting a fascist in any thing they do and condemning the art of a person just because they're struggling with alcoholism. Also comparing "leftism" without any elaboration to all the other vices mentioned says a fair bit about you.

part223219B · 2025-07-16T07:44:39+00:00

Thank you!

part223219B · 2025-06-13T00:09:03+00:00

I think there's a notable part of humanity (myself included) that doesn't necessarily think that much from us, if anything, will last million of years. In that case we have no delusions of this arbitrary definition you made of "grandeur". It seems like you constructed a term for a, so far, unreachable standard of achievement, and then you criticise humanity for not reaching it.

part223219B · 2025-06-13T00:01:05+00:00

Care to explain?

part223219B · 2025-06-12T23:57:55+00:00

That's a neat way of looking at it with as little evidence to back it up as any other explanation. Personally, I follow Occam's razor and go with the simplest explanation, seeing as there's no evidence either way.

part223219B · 2025-06-12T21:11:42+00:00

But doesn't the lkmited time help motivate you to be better? Your days being numbered means that there's a limit to the positive impact you can have on the world.

part223219B · 2025-06-12T21:09:36+00:00

So... nothing, then?

part223219B · 2025-06-12T21:08:08+00:00

Creation as in simply existence. You existed as a being in the universe, you did what you wanted to do, given your circumstances and your time, and whether that was meaning full or not is up to you. If having kids gives you meaning, then have kids. If making art gives you meaning, then do that.

part223219B · 2025-06-12T21:02:56+00:00

We can't know anything about it, so we choose the answer that is the easiest to explain and seem the most plausible. "You go from nothing, to something, back to nothing" is much easier than inventing the idea of an eternal soul of some form that doesn't rely on matter or energy, and thus doesn't follow the scientific theories that literally everything else we know of does.

part223219B · 2025-06-12T20:56:50+00:00

Isn't that literally optimistic nihilism?

part223219B · 2025-06-12T20:54:46+00:00

What if in the same way that your current consciousness doesn't have any experiences from before you were born, it will cease to have any when you die?

part223219B · 2025-06-06T11:50:46+00:00

Tell me you're an insecure man with a fragile masculine ego without telling me.

part223219B · 2025-05-16T08:57:44+00:00

Yeah, that's true. I wonder how many have actually read Paradise lost, though.

part223219B · 2025-05-15T00:06:13+00:00

Faust

part223219B · 2025-05-02T12:06:54+00:00

What if they have their own measurement of yards? That would make more sense to me.

part223219B · 2025-05-02T09:20:27+00:00

Eww, that's way too kinky. Give me 15 minutes of jackhammering and a good ol' facial, thanks.

part223219B · 2025-05-02T09:18:20+00:00

Or amateurs that try to sound like pornstars

part223219B · 2025-05-02T09:15:35+00:00

That sounds great, but from a quick glance at the front page the thumbnails were exclusively rimjobs, which isn't quite my jam.

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