Thursday, May 05, 2005

Splash du Jour: Thursday

Never mind the legendary molten brimstone accompanied with pitchforks up your butt!
Those things do sound quite uncomfortable, yes... but here below is the most somber definition of hell I have ever encountered in literature. Dostoyevsky’s Father Zossima concludes that hell is:
“the suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.”
- from The Brothers Karamazov, Book VI, chapter 3 –

Have a great Thursday!

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