Temenos

I will be continuing themes from my last Counterpunch essay, posted over last weekend. I’m getting much reinforcement reading The Brothers Karamazov for this preoccupation of my adult years with what Dostoyevsky calls “the accursed questions,’ ie., “God vs. reason, human destiny, the future of [America]” (his concern was Russia, of course). Being a great novelist, he writes about all this entertainingly, his novels populated with the most vivid and realized characters imaginable, whereas I must take a different tack! I hope you will join me in that bracing air of “the accursed questions,” all of which are rooted in the in-common human soul.