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Comments on: Great moments in literature: "Eternity [is]...spiders in every corner"

What a great line from an exceptional book.

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by PACSferret January 21, 2008 12:12 AM PST
C'mon Matt. I'm sure you can use "Black and grimy and spiders in every corner." as a metaphor for proprietary software somehow.
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by tim.hendo June 9, 2008 2:01 PM PDT
Yikes! this is what you're returning to when you stop Googling all day? Huck Finn is fine stuff, but Dostoevsky and Dreiser are drivel. Combat Google with Gogol, at least, your get yourself some nice Nabokov. That'll keep your attention, man!
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by jehhk June 10, 2008 5:54 PM PDT
Don't listen to this ignorant fool. Dostoevsky is amazing, Dreiser somewhat less so, but Crime and Punishment is pure brilliance. I felt so alive when I finished it. So many of Raskolnikov's ideas and concepts I have thought of myself (obvious never carrying them out), but I think that Dostoevsky really found a character that was very true to reality.
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