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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In principle you could be like “I want to understand the world in preparation for achieving my goals” and that’s my ideal. In practice you see more pure observation done by people who aren’t motivated do act, and more bold action by people who don’t observe well.
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Fox/hedgehog is basically the same thing. (Tolstoy of course being the fox and Dostoyevsky the hedgehog.)
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Noooo Karenin's ears are the villain!!!
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Ah you meant Tolstoy!
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