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Sep 12, 2018dissymissylessy rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
" Yet in fact---in the fact of the world's view--how little was there to remember! The morning's awakening, the nightly summons to bed; the recitations; the periodical half-holidays, and perambulations; the play-ground, with its broils, its pastimes, its intrigues;----these, by a mental sorcery long forgotten, were made to involve a wilderness of sensation, a world of rich incident, an universe of varied emotion, of excitement the most passionate and spirit-stirring. ' Oh, le bon temps, que ce siècle de fer!'" " It was Wilson; but he spoke no longer in a whisper, and I could have fancied that I myself was speaking while he said: ' YOU HAVE CONQUERED, AND I YIELD. YET HENCEFORTH ART THOU ALSO DEAD----DEAD TO THE WORLD, TO HEAVEN, AND TO HOPE! IN ME DIDST THOU EXIST---AND, IN MY DEATH, SEE BY THIS IMAGE, WHICH IS THINE OWN, HOW UTTERLY THOU HAST MURDERED THYSELF.' " actually, his teaching may have been adequate, but his fealty to hi papa is what destroys his own mind. he's insecure about the quality of that, and rightly so, but he just doesn't have enough true faith or time in the day to confront his false self--co-ed and supported by the conniving others he so loves--they see no reason to change themselves, so why should he? they love their crooked little set-up, with him as a part, so they let him pretend he's a first-class intellect. daddy cracks the whip when necessary....my brother is in his latter 50s, it's embarassing. i mentioned previously how he handles the task of euthanising family pets: well. my dad hated each family cat quickly. the seattle cat, a tabby, ended up smashed flat in front of the house, a tragedy which he recently blamed on the next door neighbor, a whopper of a lie he told while watching my face to see it going over. the truth is , he ran over the cat, because in his germanic archetypal self, the cat was too self-indulgent, and he did not like his kids loving her. similar to my brother, he took the indirect route. similar to the story of Poe's, WILLIAM WILSON, Dosteovskii wrote one called THE DOUBLE. For those interested in the doppelganger theme, it,too, is recommended, by me. Golyadkin lives!!