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100 pages in and I think I like it more than Crime and Punishment.

Excited to see how the rest of the story unfolds.

Reading Russian Literature in dead of winter just feels appropriate.

Chapter 6 is wild…

“I know that the thing I want is exactly the thing I can never get… ‘H is dead’ is to say, ‘All that is gone.’ It is part of the past. And the past is the past and that is what time means, and time itself is one more name for death, and heaven itself is a state where ‘the former things have passed away.’

Lewis delivering gut punch after gut punch.

Simple bourgeois happiness is often despised by activists of all sorts who quite often do not realize the depth of life itself; who think that life is an accumulation of activities. God gives us life…At home,when all is done, life itself begins.

“Eternity is not the negation of time, but time’s absolute wholeness, gathering and restoration. Eternal life is not what begins after temporal life; it is the eternal presence of the totality of life. Christianity is a blessed memory; it is really then inquiring all of fragmented time; it is the experience of eternity, here and now”