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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If I get this right, what we're talking about is that there is / can be additional moral value, truthfulness, to a life lived near the edge, to a subversive quotidien. I think in literature this is *extremely complicated*. (Ideologically, Tolstoy was also "near the edge" btw.)
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I don't get what this "near the edge" means here? Edge of what?
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People who lead seemingly very "active" lives (lots of accomplishments you could list on a resume) are often *not* the most focused on narrowing down precisely what they want; that's how they manage to do many things, by caring less about which things those are!
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