"The [animal] is much more content with mere existence than man; the plant is wholly so. . . ." Arthur Schopenhauer
Sunday, June 5, 2022
Crime and Punishment: Redemption
"Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind." Crime and Punishment, p. 472. "But that is the beginnig of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new, unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story has ended." Id.
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Great cover of Walking on the Moon, by one of my favorite bands, the Police. This is a great song about falling in love.
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NPR did a piece called "This I Believe" a few years back. Listeners were invited to recite their core beliefs about anything...