Cleaning always makes me run downstairs a lot. (Cleaning my room means transporting junk to the basement to hide away.)
So… anyway, I decided to clean and sort my shelf of books. Since I've got a shelf one row is the books I've read and the one in front is ones I need to read. Since I've read a lot, I decided I could probably hide some of my “lesser” books in the basement. (Heh… Magic the Gathering books… they were good, but don't belong next to Catcher in the Rye)
This brings me downstairs to a bookshelf stuffed with old books. Mostly children's books, but I decided to look at some titles. I saw one called The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and I was like “Hey, Russian literature, I should put that on my 'to-read- list.”
I mention this because here's the book's description:
THE POSSESSED is regarded the world over as the most shattering vision of nihilism in action to come out of Russia. Despite their different interpretations of radical politics, the young men, Stavrogin and Verhovensky combine fanaticism, treachery, and self-contradiction to incite an entire town to pillage, arson, and slaughter. In this story of misfits who believe in nothing and wish only to destry, Dostoyevsky is everywhere concerned with the passion man demonstrates for the lie in order to create a chaos that mirrors his tortured soul.
NIHILISM is fucking everywhere. This should be a good read.