Not P but DFW: the implications of a human Christ

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for replying. Just wanted to make sure I was on firm ground before
rejecting another proofreader-suggested change.


On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 12:10 AM Corbeau Castrum <filsducorbeau at pm.me>
wrote:

> I think it means consequences, as in the consequences of Christ being
> human and thus experiencing all of nature's physical forces (i.e. being
> able to die).
>
> On Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 at 17:02, Mike Jing <
> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The following excerpt is from David Foster Wallace's *Joseph Frank's
> > Dostoevsky*:
> >
> > Not surprisingly, FMD’s exact beliefs are idiosyncratic and complicated,
> > and Joseph Frank is thorough and clear and detailed in explaining their
> > evolution through the novels’ thematics (as in, e.g., the toxic effects
> of
> > egoistic atheism on the Russian character in Notes and C&P; the
> deformation
> > of Russian passion by worldly Europe in The Gambler; and, in The Idiot’s
> > Myshkin and The Brothers Karamazov’s Zossima, the implications of a human
> > Christ subjected literally to nature’s physical forces, an idea central
> to
> > all the fiction Dostoevsky wrote after seeing Holbein the Younger’s “Dead
> > Christ” at the Basel Museum in 1867).
> >
> > What does the word "implication" mean here exactly?
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