TMoP, Chap 1, Page 1, Paragraph 1

[Mark Kohut]

"intelligentsia", referred to in the article on Nihilism, is a Russian conception....first use was in that country.

Also, the use of Anarchism in this wiki article is too broad, of course. 


--- On Fri, 9/19/08, Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: TMoP, Chap 1, Page 1, Paragraph 1
> To: "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Cc: "Richard Ryan" <richardryannyc at yahoo.com>
> Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 12:28 AM
> On Sep 18, 2008, at 4:33 AM, Richard Ryan wrote:
> 
> > "October, 1869.  A droshky passes slowly down a
> street in the  
> > Haymarket district of St Petersburg.
> 
> These opening lines certainly set forth an exact time and
> place.
> 
> Earlier in the 1860s, and this is very relevant to the
> book, a  
> movement called Nihilism developed in Russia.  More later
> I'm sure,   
> but if you want it now:
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Russia#Nihilism
> 
> And back to the opening:
> 
> Haymarket Square:
> http://authoringexistence.blogspot.com/2007/03/pictures-of-nietzsche-
> 
> dostoyevsky-and.html
> 
> Dostoevsky in St. Petersburg - (he lived for awhile in the
> aptly  
> named Haymarket area) -  some pretty interesting stuff at:
>  
> http://www.budgettravel.com/bt-dyn/content/article/2008/01/10/
> 
> AR2008011002874.html
> 
> Dostoevsky,  the historical person,  was living with his
> step-son  
> from first marriage,  his second wife and their newborn
> daughter  in  
> Dresden (in October) and between novels.   The family was
> poor and  
> Dostoevsky was addicted to gambling and abusing alcohol.  
> He had  
> been having epileptic fits since the 1850s.  At this point 
> 
> Dostoevsky  condemned the Socialist and Nihilist movements
> which were  
> rather popular at the time.  (He had been quite different
> back in the  
> 1840s.)
> 
> Bekah
> Trying not to go far from the opening lines and the cover
> blurb.