The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
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A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
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To transform the world, to recreate it afresh, men must turn into another path psychologically. Until you have become really, in actual fact, a brother to every one, brotherhood will not come to pass. No sort of scientific teaching, no kind of common interest, will ever teach men to share property and privileges with equal consideration for all. Every one will think his share too small and they will be always envying, complaining and attacking one another. You ask when it will come to pass; it will come to pass, but first we have to go through the period of isolation.... For every one strives to keep his individuality as apart as possible, wishes to secure the greatest possible fullness of life for himself.... true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov