"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
~Camilla
Ghavrel is Ghavrel is Ghavrel
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~Camilla
Ghavrel is Ghavrel is Ghavrel
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What stories make strong arguments against (or for) nihilism?
- 08/10/2012 06:20:25 PM
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Turgenev's Fathers and Sons is a quintessential story about nihilism. *NM*
- 09/10/2012 01:00:02 AM
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Nihilism seems to crop up a lot in Russian literature. Is there a reason in particular? *NM*
- 09/10/2012 04:15:18 AM
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It was in part a political movement. See Dostoevsky's Demons (aka The Possessed).
- 09/10/2012 01:49:24 PM
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Neat. Thank you. *NM*
- 09/10/2012 03:15:57 PM
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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, by Thomas Ligotti
- 15/10/2012 02:35:56 AM
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I gotta read more of his stuff. Noctuary just didn't quite make it for me. *NM*
- 05/11/2012 04:41:27 PM
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