To be completely honest, and I am probably not nearly alone
when it comes to this, but half of the time, I feel like I am reading a
different language when I am reading this book. Dostoyevsky has many ideas but
he also contradicts himself in many occasions, making it very confusing to
understand what he is really getting at. There are some paragraphs I understand,
or at least I think I understand, and others that have me reading them over and
over again with still no clue as to what I am even reading about. He admits
himself to be a babbler who rambles on and on, and in the book this can even be
seen when he is talking about something and his train of thought gets lost and
the paragraph ends with a cliff hanging “and…” which particularly annoys me
because he changes subjects with no explanation. I understand that he is
talking about the differences between the “normal man” and the “conscious man” and
how being like the normal man would make life easier. Up to this point, that is
pretty much all I can really conclude though.
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