Friday, May 18, 2007
 
notes from underground by that romantic crazy-man:

I am a sick man. ... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. Ibelieve my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about mydisease, and do not know for certain what ails me. I don't consult a doctorfor it, and never have, though I have a respect for medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, sufficiently so to respect medicine,anyway (I am well-educated enough not to be superstitious, but I amsuperstitious). No, I refuse to consult a doctor from spite. That youprobably will not understand. Well, I understand it, though. Of course, Ican't explain who it is precisely that I am mortifying in this case by myspite: I am perfectly well aware that I cannot "pay out" the doctors by notconsulting them; I know better than anyone that by all this I am onlyinjuring myself and no one else. But still, if I don't consult a doctor it isfrom spite. My liver is bad, well--let it get worse!

I think I am going to memorize this and use it as a dramatic method for getting attention at dinner parties.

my poor wife


- posted by -g @ 9:20 PM | | 1 rocks in pond



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And so you have. But I still love you.
- your poor wife

By Blogger Ann, at 4:15 PM  

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