"Dostoevsky talked with Charles Dickens [and] wrote about the meeting in a letter 16 years after the event:

He told me that all the good simple people in his novels, Little Nell, even the holy simpletons like Barnaby Rudge [!?], are what he wanted to have been, and his villains were what he was (or rather, what he found in himself), his cruelty, his ( Read more... )

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"Award winning nature photographer David Slater left his camera unattended in an Indonesia national park, and apparently a macaque monkey wandered over and took this hilarious self-portrait."


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