Not P but DFW on Dostoevsky

[Martin Dietze]

So you just read things in the "wrong" order 🙃

On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 16:25, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I read The Possessed, much before GR was published, I, too, thought
> Big D described the world
> around him....
>
> Didn't he?
>
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 10:03 AM Martin Dietze <mdietze at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Fun fact: when I first read Dostoyevsky's "Demons" I was struck by its
>> absurdity and felt myself reminded of Pynchon's novels, in particular GR.
>>
>> Shortly after that I took my first trip to Ukraine and had a long
>> conversation with a relative who was about 15 years older than me and like
>> me loved literature. I told him about my observations, and he replied:
>> "You're wrong. There's a fundamental difference between Dostoyevsky and
>> Pynchon. In Dostoyevsky's novels it's not at all fiction. The absurdity
>> you
>> find in there is not stilistic, neither humor. He simply described the
>> world around him."
>>
>> Of course that guy (my relative? Dostoyevsky? both?) must have been a
>> russophobe 😉
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 14:50, 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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>> > >
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>>
>>
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