
Ep 52 - Reflecting on the Great Books on my Birthday
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What I Have Learnt From Crime and Punishment
When i think back over crime and punishment, the thing that always impresses me the most is marmeladov when he sets very early on. Marmeladof his words suffused with new testament wisdom. When dostoevsky was carted off to the work camps in siberia, bound hand and foot, the new testament was the only work that he had pretty much consistent access to. He also thoroughly lived shakespeare. And if you have read macbeth in particular, deeply,. And then read crime and punishment side by side. You'll see them as companion pieces, night time pieces, visionary pieces of the soul. Hopefully their darkness will illumin ate the
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