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...There is something ridiculous about being able to buy a sock monkey. Legos used to be jumbled batches of bright bricks with the occasional wheel or axle. Now you can buy the Star Wars Venator-Class Republic Attack Cruiser kit, 1,170 pieces with instructions longer than The Brothers Karamazov. You build a cool spaceship, so long as you follow the directions - a useful skill, but not the same as constructing a cathedral out of nothing but cubes and confidence...
...colorful and referential insults, classical literature, and cosmopolitan knowhow. One pretend madman, exercising freedom of speech as his alter ego declares, “Et tu, Brute, sold out the Bolsheviks!” The novel also takes particular interest in allusions to “The Brothers Karamazov,” and at one point Ostap conflates the story of Jason’s Golden Fleece with the titular (and Biblical) Golden Calf...
...shelf-life as a writer and his severe failures as a political visionary. For genuine liberal critiques of totalitarian society, we can always go back to Orwell. As for a perversely beautiful celebration of the Russian spirit, I’ll stick with “The Brothers Karamazov.” David L. Golding ’08-’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is an English concentrator in Dunster House...
...conclusion of Dostoyevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov,” Alyosha Karamazov urges the group of young boys gathered at their schoolmate’s graveside not only to love one another, but also to preserve the memory of their love: to remember the day they were honest and brave and good, for one day such memory might save them from evil. “Even if only one good memory remains within our hearts,” he says to the children, “then even it may serve some...
...That our memories have tremendous power to determine what we will become is a frequently recurring theme in “The Brothers Karamazov.” The memory of some small kindness done to us, or of a moment when we forgot ourselves in love for another, can set us on the path towards happiness and fulfillment that might otherwise be closed to us. Even one loving memory—one pure and true connection to another person—might serve to keep us from evil and violence, and open us to the good...