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Probably Doestoevsky. I want to know if he really believed in God, because I have serious doubts. He's too gloomy and pessimistic, yet practically every page oozes biblical allegory. Man, I love that...

Read Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (i.e. In Search of Lost Time). Read it in the original French because it’s no easier to understand in English, even if you don’t know any French. Read it...

I read literature for knowledge. Science is very useful if you want a reliable method for learning things that aren’t very important. Philosophy is an entertaining game but always leaves one just shy...

So some say, yet everybody on the crashing plane screams, excepting a few Bhuddist monks. Not that I've ever been on a crashing plane, but so I'm told. I suppose that just means that most people,...

I am not afraid of death, per se, I think (I’m not 100% sure that answer is honest since my introspective query on the matter may be defective). However I am specifically afraid of two things. I’m...

But now what comes next, after Post-Modernism? Or is nothing possible after Post-Modernism? Is Post-Modernism the total deconstruction of culture such that there is no more discernable culture and...

I've been trying to figure out the appeal of "A Tale of Two Cities" ever since I quit after 100 pages. I'm sure there's some reason why people like that book and if somebody could explain the...

I recently reread Milan Kundera’s "Life is Elsewhere". I enjoyed it as much as I did the first time (I'm quite a Kundera fan) but this time decided that Kundera was perhaps unfairly gloomy. By this I...

Since the Decameron is basically a compilation of short stories one doesn’t really need to read it cover to cover but could just as easily jump around form story to story (there is not much narrative...

I'm guessing your friend is talking about the famous Grand Inquisitor story, which is often excerpted as a stand alone passage, and is told by Ivan to Alyosha to antagonize him. In the story Christ...

It’s settled then. John Howard is the Messiah.