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April 24, 2006
Underground Man
"You gentlemen perhaps think I am mad? Allow me to defend myself. I agree that man is preeminently a creative animal, predestined to consciously strive toward a goal, and to engage in engineering, that is, eternally and incessantly, to build new roads, wherever they may lead... Man loves to create roads, that is beyond dispute. But... may it not be... that he is instinctively afraid of attaining his goal and completing the edifice he is constructing? How do you know, perhaps he only likes the edifice from a distance and not at all at a close range, perhaps he only likes to build it, and does not want to live in it."
~Dostroevsky
Posted by Charlie at April 24, 2006 12:45 PM