Notes From The Underground

[socraticthought]

"As for me, all I did was carry to the limit what you haven't dared to push even halfway - taking your cowardice for reasonableness, thus making yourselves feel better. So I may still turn out to be more alive than you in the end. Come on, have another look at it! Why, today we don't even know where real life is, what it is, or what it's called

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on captivity

[namitha]

"In such places (he went on at last), where animals are simply penned up, they are almost always more thoughtful than their cousins in the wild. This is because even the dimmest of them cannot help but sense that something is very wrong with this style of living. When I say that they are more thoughtful, I don't mean to imply that they acquire powers of ratiocination. But the tiger you see madly pacing its cage is nevertheless preoccupied with something that a human would certainly recognize as a thought. And this thought is a question: Why? "Why, why, why, why, why, why?" the tiger asks itself hour after hour, day after day, year after year, as it treads its endless path behind the bars of its cage. It cannot analyze the question or elaborate on it. If you were somehow able to ask the creature, "Why what?" it would be unable to answer you. Nevertheless this question burns like an unquenchable flame in its mind, inflicting a searing pain that does not diminish until the creature lapses into a final lethargy that zookeepers

Re: on captivity

[socraticthought]

i love that grace. i'm going to have to get a copy of that book.

i miss you. i need to email you. i'm a bad friend.

love

Re: on captivity

[namitha]

you definitely need to read this book. i'm not finished with it yet, but already it's blowing my mind.

yes, email me when you have time. i miss you too dan.

love,
me

[midnite_black]

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
-Dostoyevsky-

I love him. Along with Machiavelli and Nietzsche.

Chelsea

[socraticthought]

I love you. and I love that quote.

I didn't know that you were a fan, now we have more to talk about.

[midnite_black]

I love you too. It's my favorite quote.

And, yes we do have more to talk about.