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Is Ivan the credited Karamazov brother or Smerdyakov?
| Odious turquoise preventive strike | 05/26/12 |
| Swollen shaky plaza son of senegal | 05/26/12 |
| Odious turquoise preventive strike | 05/26/12 |
| soul-stirring jet mad-dog skullcap abode | 02/11/13 |
| supple friendly grandma | 08/21/16 |
| Startling spruce foreskin | 05/26/12 |
| Odious turquoise preventive strike | 05/26/12 |
| Startling spruce foreskin | 05/26/12 |
| Well-lubricated Provocative Personal Credit Line Native | 05/27/12 |
| mischievous wrinkle | 02/11/13 |
| Learning Disabled Box Office | 02/11/13 |
| Frisky hall | 07/28/19 |
| pungent telephone new version | 02/11/13 |
| soul-stirring jet mad-dog skullcap abode | 02/11/13 |
| balding blue crackhouse sandwich | 02/11/13 |
| Grizzly fat ankles | 08/21/16 |
| rambunctious stirring half-breed nursing home | 07/28/19 |
| salmon forum lettuce | 08/21/16 |
| Frisky hall | 07/28/19 |
| Lascivious Dilemma | 07/28/19 |
| Grizzly fat ankles | 07/28/19 |
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Date: May 26th, 2012 9:50 PM Author: Odious turquoise preventive strike (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1957470&forum_id=2#20772941) |
Date: May 26th, 2012 9:51 PM Author: Swollen shaky plaza son of senegal Russians are the Niggers of Europe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1957470&forum_id=2#20772954) |
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Date: May 26th, 2012 9:52 PM Author: Odious turquoise preventive strike They're not really that athletic. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1957470&forum_id=2#20772960) |
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Date: February 11th, 2013 2:40 PM Author: soul-stirring jet mad-dog skullcap abode What does that make the Irish? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1957470&forum_id=2#22615431) |
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Date: August 21st, 2016 3:27 AM Author: supple friendly grandma no, but thick skulled (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1957470&forum_id=2#31233697) |
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Date: May 26th, 2012 9:54 PM Author: Startling spruce foreskin Smerdyakov. Ivan is a priss. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1957470&forum_id=2#20772974) |
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Date: May 26th, 2012 9:55 PM Author: Odious turquoise preventive strike No one loves Smerdyakov. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1957470&forum_id=2#20772982) |
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Date: May 26th, 2012 9:56 PM Author: Startling spruce foreskin not even Dostoevsky (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1957470&forum_id=2#20772992) |
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Date: May 27th, 2012 2:21 AM Author: Well-lubricated Provocative Personal Credit Line Native http://www.infidels.org/kiosk/article42.html
Possibly the best-known quote from the works of Dostoevsky is this:
"If God does not exist, everything is permitted."
You can see it, for example, on the title page of the self-designated "Dostoevsky Resource on the Net" by Christiaan Stange; and again in the Quotes section of Lu's Greco's Dostoevsky page; and yet again (possibly lifted intact from Stange's page) on Luba Petersen's Dostoevsky site.
This soundbite sentence has propagated widely into popular religious debate on the internet. Like any good soundbite, it neatly encapsulates the fears and hopes of a diverse audience: the believer's fear of, and the nonbeliever's hope for, a secular moral system.
There is only problem with this well-known quote: Dostoevsky never wrote it!
I say this with confidence because I have searched the online text of the Constance Garnett translation of The Brothers Karamazov, examining every use of "God" and "exist" and "lawful" ("lawful" is how Garnett translates the word that others translate as "permitted").
The sentence does not appear, nor anything close to it. Nor does it appear in any of the other four Dostoevsky novels whose complete English texts are available online. The fact that a nonexistent text can be widely attributed to a famous author reveals the limitations of precomputer scholarship. The fact that I could so quickly prove it erroneous highlights the opportunities for modern scholars. |
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Date: February 11th, 2013 11:03 AM Author: mischievous wrinkle Fyodor is TCK. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1957470&forum_id=2#22613917) |
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Date: February 11th, 2013 1:28 PM Author: Learning Disabled Box Office how is this even a question? of course it's ivan. smerdyakov is a weird little epileptic who tortures cats, and everyone hates him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1957470&forum_id=2#22614910) |
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Date: July 28th, 2019 9:30 PM Author: Frisky hall what's his moniker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1957470&forum_id=2#38602904) |
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Date: February 11th, 2013 2:25 PM Author: pungent telephone new version alyosha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1957470&forum_id=2#22615308) |
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Date: February 11th, 2013 2:39 PM Author: soul-stirring jet mad-dog skullcap abode No fucking way. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1957470&forum_id=2#22615424) |
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Date: February 11th, 2013 3:20 PM Author: balding blue crackhouse sandwich CR dat dere acolyte of father zosima tip (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1957470&forum_id=2#22615690) |
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Date: August 21st, 2016 3:28 AM Author: Grizzly fat ankles cr. but Ivan is XO. hence unhappy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1957470&forum_id=2#31233699) |
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Date: July 28th, 2019 10:16 PM Author: rambunctious stirring half-breed nursing home (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1957470&forum_id=2#38603152) |
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Date: August 21st, 2016 3:16 AM Author: salmon forum lettuce (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1957470&forum_id=2#31233685) |
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Date: July 28th, 2019 9:24 PM Author: Frisky hall (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1957470&forum_id=2#38602869) |
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Date: July 28th, 2019 9:29 PM Author: Lascivious Dilemma alyosha retard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1957470&forum_id=2#38602900) |
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Date: July 28th, 2019 9:31 PM Author: Grizzly fat ankles Smerdyakov is what most XOers are.
Ivan is what they aspire to be.
Alyosha is what they ought to be (except quotemos -- that scum will always be Smerdyakov). |
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Date: July 28th, 2019 10:18 PM Author: Bearded Ivory University Alyosha, obviously How is this even a question, the author spells it out pretty clearly |