I think Dostoevsky's pain is very male, very much about the impossibility of achievement in a morally or socially perfect way. Tolstoy's pain, the too slow, too fast passing of time, the inevitable falling apart of familial and social structures, is female.https://twitter.com/questionaware/status/1209106012055252992 …
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Is as in does it have to be? Or empirically it tends to be? Prima facie it doesn't seem to have to be fatalist to me.
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It doesn’t analytically always have to be but I think Tolstoy is fatalist. The train is the villain in Anna Karenina!
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Then again, you’re a humanist, I’m just a STEM megalomaniac playing God and railing at the universe, so I kinda prefer authors (and people) with the same energy.
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If all STEM megalomaniacs are like you, we're good
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