>I wouldn't mind being "obscure" like Fyodor, either...<
I can understand that temptation, Alison. Personally, I settle
(tongue-in-cheek with that 'Personally, I' btw) for being as obscure
as David.
(If I could ever work out what lurks in that particular fog I might
derive a kind of contentment, I wouldn't say I'd die a happy man, that
would be going too far, as well as a cliche ...)
I met a guy in the pub tonight who liked me so much as a 'person' that
he gave me an invite to his funeral. I liked that.
Best
Dave
2008/9/9 Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>:
> Dostoevsky is humourless?! What about Notes from Underground? Or the
> scene in The Idiot where Prince Myshkin is told to behave himself as a
> posh gathering and breaks an expensive vase from sheer nervousness?
> Etc. He's painfully funny when he chooses to be.
>
> I wouldn't mind being "obscure" like Fyodor, either...
>
> xA
>
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