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In 1849, over a dozen members of a group known as the Petraschevsky Circle faced a firing squad in the middle of St. Petersburg for discussing and conspiring to spread unlawful ideas. The first three men were tied to the stakes, and Dostovesky was next in line when Tsar Nicholas I spared the prisoners' lives
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The sun was rising above a nearby church’s cupola. What Doestovsky felt at that moment was a sublime and wondrous terror. He was facing the great rift of living, an incomprehensible truth. He thought about his brother, about how much he loved him. He thought about the morning sun rising up.
And then – suddenly – the drummers sounded the cadence for retreat. The soldiers lifted their weapons, and a small detachment came galloping across the plaza. And adjutant presented a document, and the document was read aloud: Tsar Nicholas, in his great mercy, grants the prisoners a last-minute reprieve. Instead of execution, the Petrashevists would be exiled. ~ Page 100/101
. . . . Dostoevsky’s moments actually did recur as by-product of his sickness, and his description are more matter of fact and explicit that Nietzsche’s
There are moments when all the intellectual and spiritual faculties, mobility overstrained as it were, suddenly flare up in a bright flame of consciousness; and at such an instant the troubled soul, as though languishing with a foreboding of the future, with a foretaste of it, has something like a prophetic vision. And your whole being so longs for life, so begs for life; and aflame with the mot burning, blindest hope, your heart seems to summon the fortune with all its mystery, with all its uncertainty, even with its storms and upheavals if only it brings life
This is the sense of life just preceding the epileptic fit. “For this moment one might give one’s whole life.” he always associated each return of this moment with his memory of a scene on a parade ground in Moscow while he had heard the sentence of death read out and knew then that he had only a few minutes more to live. His epileptic history also began that day. Sentenced and reprieved – this was to be the recurrent pattern of his life. “Only a sentence of death distinguishes a man,” Stendhal had said. And Dostoevesky would have added, only a sentence of death makes a man appreciate life, and a reprieve introduces a man to eternity. ~ Page 98
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