Word: kirillov
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...drug addict, Farber proposes, may be the prototype for all willful Americans hooked on the "demonic notion" that by chemistry or stubbornness, one can have what one wants, right now. As for suicide, Farber refers the reader to Dostoyevsky. "I will assert my will," says Kirillov in The Possessed-just be fore he commits suicide...
What is the cure for Kirillov's disease? Perhaps to accept that there is no cure. Beware, says Farber, of the sort of "truth" that promises that "once you find it, you can have it wrapped...
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