Tom Johnston’s Reviews > Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories > Status Update

Scared me straight, in a good way. If Joyce is the greatest anthropologist, then Dostoevsky is the greatest psychologist. We all have an underground man within us, and most of the time we are oblivious to how much power and control we all it to have. Stay in the bottomless pit of despair or rise like a phoenix from the ashes of your past and claim what’s rightfully yours , or fall victim to entropy, decay and death