Not P but DFW on Dostoevsky

[Mike Jing]

Got it. Thanks, Ian.



On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 8:50 AM Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "He ascended into Heaven and sitteth upon the right hand of God."
> Remembering, of course, that the left hand was used for cleaning oneself
> after defecation.
>
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 5:43 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The following excerpt is from David Foster Wallace's Joseph Frank's
>> Dostoevsky:
>>
>> Even if we suppose he was divine — did he know? Did he know he could have
>> broken the cross with just a word? Did he know in advance that death would
>> just be temporary (because I bet I could climb up there, too, if I knew
>> that an eternity of right-hand bliss lay on the other side of six hours of
>> pain)?
>>
>> Here he is talking about Jesus Christ. What does the word "right-hand"
>> mean
>> in "right-hand bliss"?
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