Pride and Justification

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For a man who claims to care so little about what others think of him, he really cares what other people think of him. Throughout Part I, he repeats: "I don't care in the least what you may think." However, this phrase is typically followed by a man protecting his pride. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that's what is at the base of this entire rant he's having. Every chapter he rants about a certain characteristic used to describe him and harps on why it is actually justified: rudeness, laziness, embarrassment, boredom, etc. He even goes so far as to say he's only actually considered an intelligent man because he's never attempted to start or finish anything. While reading his pathetic rants, all I could see was a little boy pouting in a corner nursing his bruises thinking they are fatal wounds. Am I the only one?

I commented on Trey and Will's posts.

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  1. Noah PalframanNovember 13, 2017 at 9:13 PM

    The comment on being an intelligent man by never starting or finishing everything brings up a scene in a movie to me which I can't remember for the life of me. I digress, he was known for having a perfect bowling record, and you find out at the end of the movie, he admits that he has never rolled a bowling ball down the lane in his life. By all reasoning, he did have a perfect bowling record, since he never took the chance to fail, he never has failed; therefore, he is perfect by never failing. In Dostoevsky's case, he can never be proven stupid because he has never started anything that could possibly judge his intelligence level; therefore, he is intelligent by not showing his intelligence.

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