Wednesday, November 19, 2008

YES. YES. YES.

"Svidrigailov murmered, as if to himself:'What is it that they usually say?' He looked away and bowed his head a little.' They say:' You're sick. So what you see is just delirium. Doesn't exist.' ...Ghosts appear only to the sick, I agree. But all that proves is that ghosts appear only to the sick. Not that they don't exist.

Raskolnikov irritably insisted : 'of course they don't!'

Looking at him hard, Svidrigailov went on: ' They don't? You think they don't? What if we look at it this way, though; You might say ghosts are the scraps and fragments of other worlds, their beginning. Of course, a healthy man has no way of seeing them, because a healthy man is above all an earthbound man; so for order and fullness he must live his life in the here and now exclusively. The moment he's sick, though, the moment the normal earthbound order of his organism is violated, the possibility of another world begins to make itself felt and the sicker he gets the closer in touch he is with the other world, so when a man dies completely he goes straight over to the other world..."

This. is.cooler. than. misplaced. punctuation.

-Murry-Uh

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