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7 comments:
very true, Raskolnikov wouldn't have used an electric toothbrush, he would have used a twig, or just a generous cup of vodka.
By the way, have you read George Steiner's 'Tolstoy or Dostoevsky'? It's very good.
I think Dostoevsky wrote that man is a creature that can get used to anything, & I suppose this unfortunately includes a world that has a place for electric toothbrushes. Haven't read the Steiner book. Read one volume of Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky biog recently which was excellent.
if you can get into a good uni library, have a look for the Steiner book, it's superb. i'd even exhort you to buy the copy on abebooks that's about £9 inc p & p, i enjoyed it that much.
I'm afraid I'm one of those lowly folks who are not in possession of a credit card but that Abebooks looks a great pointer. Is everything they advertise pretty much in stock ready to be posted out?
you don't have...a credit card? holy shit, and i thought i was backwards. But you are in the boglands: i dare say you write your blog on tree bark using charcoal, and posting it via carrier pigeon to Londinium, from your mud hut.
yes, Abebooks only (as far as i know) feature books that are in stock in 2nd hand bookshops and ready to ship. They usually turn up within a week.
as it happens, i have a card and at present have a fairly high-paying job, so if you email me a postal address i could make it a gift in exchange for your amusing Plato's Straight Man pieces, which gave me much belly laughter? i think you'll enjoy it, but if not you can always make a papier-mache Appleyard out of it, to strike fear into chavery.
I am truly at the bottom of the economical ladder. In fact, I'm so backward I don't even know what a ladder is. Also a mud hut is a technological aspiration that dreams are made of...a hollowed out tree does me. My blog is transmitted via smoke signals that the local charcoal burners are kind enough to send in exchange for rabbit skins.
As for the book offer, that's extremely generous & I'd be delighted so I'll email on the whatsits.
i had a feeling you were a Raskolnikov type, clad in rags & bits of cardboard & bark. i've been there, indeed most of my life has been thus. Recently i've by luck got a (to me) very highly-paid job, £7.69/hour, and having got used to managing on almost nothing am suddenly rolling in dough.
My address is walter_aske@yahoo.co.uk, though Walter Aske isn't actually my real name: my real name is Elberry.
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