M&M- Russians are Weird.

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Like all of us, this book is freaking weird to me. (But I guess this is the week for weird books...also reading CS Lewis' "Till We Have Faces" for a class so my week has begun incredibly odd.) Also, as most of us have found, the penny has not quite dropped on the greater meaning of this novel. Still waiting for that, alongside that margarita (a pearl, a woman, a drink?) to show up...

But a few observations. First, Russian writers are incredibly witty, quick, and weird. I just want to say, Dostoyevsky's "Notes from the Underground" completely threw me and so has this book thus far. Maybe I just don't get Russian humor or something, but it is really depressing and eerie, if you ask me. Let's just talk about how within the first five chapters of the book we meet a creepy wierdo that predicts a personal death that would happen within hours of conversation, a decapitation, and a walking and talking cat. Don't really know how I feel about that. I did find the conversation of God's existence, and then Jesus', and then a quick stab of convincing of the devil's existence, too, as interesting. Why engage two atheists in such a conversation? There must be a greater reason. I'm anxious to interpret what that exactly is. Of course the weird stranger (aka Satan??) does not want to convince his audience of Jesus being God but he did insist upon him existing. This is compelling to me.

I think these thought are very scattered, however, I do not know how to bring them more into focus. Perhaps further discussion will be enlightening, and of course further reading will tell the story!

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