At some point during my teen-aged years, my father decided we needed a new family Christmas tradition, so he began reading us “The Grand Inquisitor” chapter from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov on Christmas Eve. We’d sit in the living room, … Continue reading
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Dostoevsky said the lives of the prisoners were like those of the “settlers on the slopes of Vesuvius.” That gave me pause, I tell you. I barely paid attention to the rest of the chapter so taken was I with … Continue reading