i think at the beginning of our conversation, iv started to feel accused by the story too. And in a sense, i think that's what this story is. We kind of go through, as, as you said early, er, kind of th protagonists of our own novels,. But but really, we're the accused, like everybody els. There wasomething about the story that was just telling me, like, are you doing what you ought to be doing right now? That aspect of it really, really moved me. I so i think when i read it first time when i was young, i don't think i was poised to have any of this kind of inside. I
Ivan Ilyich is a man. All men are mortal. So Ivan Ilyich is mortal. Sure absolutely, that’s true for Ivan Ilyich and for all men. But we’re not Ivan Ilyich and we’re not ‘all men’- so what does this have to do with us? Right? David and Tamler confront their mortality as they discuss Leo Tolstoy’s brilliant and chilling short story “The Death of Ivan Ilyich.”
Plus the ‘Why I am leaving academia’ essay has become its own genre. But is this profession really that much worse relative to others?
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