Working for a shaman, I've seen those who plainly and clearly hear the divine whispers, those tingles of intuition – the slightest breath and beat of love and kindness. I've also come accross many who hear whispers of another kind, ..... I think Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" could easily replace that one. Also, I'd pick Tolkien over L'Engle and maybe include Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich". Well done, glad none of those "Left Behind" books made it. ...

The scene ends with a crowd of people beating the horse to death with iron rods and “an axe to...finish her off.” The crowd walks away after the nag is dead, without any care. While Edgar Allan Poe's 19th century society takes thrills ...

As I read this “poor little donkey” post, I found myself going back to one of the scenes of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. The scene is not one of those crucial scenes, which defines the entire plot in the book, ... The cart owner intended to take the group of men in his cart…however the burden proved too much for a 20-year-old horse. The owner of the cart in his drunken anger took a shaft and beat the mare with it, inviting his five companions to do so as well ...

But if my little daughter keeps running into the street where there's traffic, then my love and compassion might be the "harsh and dreadful love" spoken of by Dostoyevsky. As for this homophobia thing, well, I don't think I have it, but on the other hand what difference would it make .... you know what? anonymous, or whoever you are...you've made your point. your alligator tears have flooded nothing. you've been heard, continuing to beat the dead horse is superfluous. ...

2 Responses to ““Beating a(n almost-) dead horse” in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.” Shannon Says: February 9th, 2010 at 6:46 am. That is a really harrowing passage, isn't it? *shudders* I once got about halfway through Crime and ...

I want to see it, and if I am dead by then, let me rise again, for if it all happens without me, it will be too unfair. Surely I haven't suffered simply that I, my crimes and my sufferings, may manure the soil of the future harmony for ...

Then followed four years of penal servitude, spent in the company of common criminals in Siberia, where he began the "Dead House," and some years of service in a disciplinary battalion. He had shown signs of some obscure nervous disease ...