Come, gentle night I run away from the Crystal Palace, and aspire to be a sick man, a spiteful man, an unattractive man. Greedily storing up impressions, one day I, too, will emerge from the underground, and master the path to chaos.
Tag: Dostoevsky
The Contemplator
In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky makes reference to this painting by Ivan Kramskoy (The Contemplator, 1876) in describing Smerdyakov: "he stands as if he were lost in thought, but he is not thinking, he is 'contemplating' something." A contemplator greedily stores up impressions he had been under while contemplating, even without realizing it. Why and… Continue reading The Contemplator
Andy Yee 