Posted by Jost on September 25, 2006, at 14:24:14
In reply to I have a plan, posted by Declan on September 23, 2006, at 17:10:53
Which Dostoevsky? He makes me get weird.
Speaking of having someone read, did you know that he dictated most of his novels to his wife? (May have been his second wife)-- He probably would have lost it without her-- but she saved him, largely through helping him work, as well as doing many other things.
I wish I had read the Brothers Karamazov, but I started it three times and could only read up to a place where someone died and there was this whole funeral/deadbody thing, and Alexi, or the super-spiritual one, was going off on some rant or other.
Ohwell, my squandered youth.
I want to read Gogol and Oblomov. But I probably never will finish Dead Souls, or read the Man without qualities or whatever the Oblomov book is.
yeah, squandered youth. You kinda have to read that stuff while you're young.
I do turn the radio on, though. Just never turn it off. Leave it on all night.
Jost
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