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[edgar_huntly]

The nineteenth was the first century of human sympathy,--the age when half wonderingly we began to descry in others that transfigured spark of divinity which we call Myself; when clodhoppers and peasants, and tramps and thieves, and millionaires and-sometimes-Negros, became throbbing souls whose warm pulsing life touched us so nearly that we half

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[tinylittleonion]

*oh -- <3 wants to read the same books edgar does and talk about them. (so basically, a book club.)*

[edgar_huntly]

*that sounds like fun. ^__^*

[tinylittleonion]

*as fun as any discussion about human sympathy and suffering can be between two men who care as ardently about it as edgar and alyosha do. which is a lot! on both counts.*