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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Fox/hedgehog is basically the same thing. (Tolstoy of course being the fox and Dostoyevsky the hedgehog.)
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Don't forget that due to psychological balancing it is gentle, sensitive people who write dark, brutal books, and selfish assholes who write long, undulating feminist love letters to Russia. Just when thinking about what kind of people they really were. See-saw...
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One observation on this: Tolstoy's life (activism, founding schools, spreading his ideas) was way more active/helpful than Dostoevsky's (gambling addiction, financial issues etc.) -- not sure how this squares with your take!pic.twitter.com/o0gkQi5G2a
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"action" and "observation" aren't quite the right words. There's the question "what *exactly* do I want and value?" (the normative or strategic question) and then there's the question "what's going on?" (the descriptive question).
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