Gottesspur

Amidst the satisfied, drowsy, new, post-Communist consumer life of Moscow, eg those who carpe coffee at a Starbucks, and even with discussing Syria (Qaddafi's or Mubarak's fate?) with a well-known correspondent (who is for hours each day immersed in reading) the very serious political trials and tribulations in the world...a text of Harry Haller's "Gottespur":

"Life for Dostoevsky was, as it was for Keats, "a vale of soul-making," into which Christ had come to call mankind to battle against the death of immersion in matter and to inspire the struggle toward the ultimate victory over egoism." -- Frank, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time, (2010), p. 411.