Fedor Dostoevsky was sent to jail in Siberia for four years in 1849.
Later, he was to describe his ordeal in the labour camps of Siberia. He
said it was not the loss of freedom. Nor was it the brutality of his
jailers and fellow inmates. It was not the physical pain of hard labour
or the exile from friends and family that broke him and led to his
spiritual devastation. No, none of that was anything compared with the
greatest ordeal of all.
Fedor called that cruellest of punishments: "forced co-existence".
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"Forced co-existence" is too subtle for the Party apparatchiks to
understand, mitigate or be sensitive to.
They just don't think that way. I pity them.
Pity is what I have if I am being generous of spirit. The fear is, of
course, that the Party Liners do understand the devastation of "forced
co-existence" and the malice aforethought is in disguise.
Ahmad
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