“I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelops us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler’s helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego. The sensation poor Pnin experienced was something very like that divestment, that communion. He felt porous and pregnable.”
- Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
“Dostoyevsky intended (The Brothers Karamazov) to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great Sinner”
-wiki
Really Dostoyevsky? Really? Your ‘first part in an epic’ is considered to be one of the most all encompassing works of literature by millions the world over! C’mon! The damn overture to your unfinished magnum opus is held by literary critics as ‘the bizzah that’s the most mutha fuckin shizzah you evah gonna rizzah’. C’MON!
Fuck you Dostoyevsky. You weren’t even real………smarty pants….
