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Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages.
What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
I'm a guy of 92kg. I haven't got the physique of someone who can work back and then sprint up front again throughout a match!
When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.
There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
