Kirilov, was Re: VV(18): Suicide

[Paul Mackin]

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From: "Monica Belevan" <syphillitic_pig at hotmail.com>
> All of which reminds Monica of Kirilov in Dostoyevsky's " The Devils".
> Konstantin Mochulsky calls him the most "metaphysical" character in the
> Dostoyevskian bestiary; a bridge-engineer with lustreless eyes and a very
> particular gravitation to Being and Nothingness, to animation,
inanimation,
> (the unsung dynamics of pre and postanimation?)...

Right on, Monica. Bridge-engineers above all should eschew dialectical
contruction methods. Metaphysics may be OK But when it comes to bridges
definitely no excluded middles.

            P.