"What I want to say is this: - If you logically try to persuade a person that there is no absolute reason for shedding tears, the person in question will cease weeping. That's self evident. Why, I should like to know, should such a person continue doing so?"
"If such were the usual course of things, life would be a very easy matter," replied Raskolnikoff.
- Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
Or boxes, rather.
I am lost without my bookcase. I kept out an unread Margaret Atwood to tide me through, once I finish "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" (providing I don't commit suicide upon its conclusion). Tess! Tess! Forget them all! Fie, Alec! Fie, Angel! Let's go get drunk at the Reagle Beagle and flirt with UBC undergrads.
Or boxes, rather.
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