Wednesday, March 03, 2010

maybe the best insult ever written into literature...

"i hate you, gavril ardalionovitch, simply because--this will perhaps seem marvellous to you--simply because you are the type, the incarnation, the acme of the most insolent and self-satisfied, the most vulgar and loathsome commonplaceness. yours is the commonplaceness of pomposity, of self-satisfaction and olympian serenity. you are the most ordinary of the ordinary!"

dostoevsky's the idiot pp 465-466