Notes From The Underground - 9781973854524
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I am a sick man... . I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me. I don't consult a doctor for it, and never have, though I have a respect for medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, sufficiently so to respect medicine, anyway (I am well-educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am superstitious). No, I refuse to consult a doctor from spite. That you probably will not understand. Well, I understand it, though. Of course, I can't explain who it is precisely that I am mortifying in this case by my spite: I am perfectly well aware that I cannot "pay out" the doctors by not consulting them; I know better than anyone that by all this I am only injuring myself and no one else. But still, if I don't consult a doctor it is from spite. My liver is bad, well-let it get worse! I have been going on like that for a long time-twenty years. Now I am forty. I used to be in the government service, but am no longer. I was a spiteful official;
- | Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett
- | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Aug 07, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 122 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 197385452X
- | ISBN-13: 9781973854524
- Author:
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett
- Publisher:
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date:
- Aug 07, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 122 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 197385452X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781973854524