May 2010
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"Well, I guess it's a good way to avoid grass...
The students were, however, mainly white and from the middle and upper-middle class. Many of them came from North Side Chicago, which meant they were city kids who thought of themselves as far too sophisticated for a river town that bordered on Iowa. They were in a generalized way Lutheran, which meant in some vague way that they thought they were Christian. At least one of the missions of...
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Via Margaret Soltan the story of a Russian controversy: images from the fiction of Dostoevsky in the Moscow subway. People seem to be particularly freaked out by the image above.
The Moscow Times story Margaret links to doesn’t note it, but the guy with the pistol to his head is surely Svidrigailov, who kills himself near the end of Crime and Punishment after announcing that he is...
“Philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato.”
– Alfred North Whitehead quoted by Simon Critchley
