The last several months have been a period of discovery. I have delved deep into Dostoevsky, I am now discovering the magic of Thomas Hardy, and I am probing the wisdom of George Eliot. I am acquiring the rudiments of a literary education. In the sphere of music, I am working my way through the … Read more
Over the past several days I have felt an incredible lightness of spirit. Perhaps I am finally learning, as Nietzsche taught, to love my fate, and to accept all that has happened to me, awful as it has been. Whilst I am not entirely free of anger at the IMT and its monstrous oppression, I … Read more
“What if I were to die! What if I could go back to life – what eternity! And it would all be mine! I would turn every minute into an age; I would lose nothing, I would count every minute as it passed, I would not waste one!”-Prince Myshkin in The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky … Read more
I’ve just finished reading Notes from Underground, and I must confess to reading few books that have touched the core of my being in such a way. The Underground Man makes the following denunciation of all theories based on man as a rational animal, and demonstrates why, even if ‘Marxist science’ was true, and the … Read more
*SPOILERS INCLUDED* I have just finished reading Dostoevsky’s Demons for the second time. A conviction that has been drummed into me from my time doing A-Level English Literature is that you can never truly ‘get’ a novel until you have read it more than once. It took several re-readings for me to appreciate the poetic … Read more