from Dostoyevsky "Crime and Punishment" which I just happened to be reading today.
'I don't believe in a life to come,' Raskolnikov said. Svidrigailov sat looking pensive. 'And what if there's nothing there except spiders, or something of that kind?" he said suddenly. 'This is a madman,' Raskolnikov thought. 'You see, we always think of eternity as an idea that can't be comprehended, as something enormous, gigantic! But why does it have to be so very large? I mean, instead of thinking of it that way, try supposing that all there will be is one little room, something akin to a country bath-house, with soot on the walls and spiders in every corner, and there's your eternity for you. You know, I sometimes see it that way.' 'Can you really, really not imagine anything more just and consoling than that?" Raskolnikov exclaimed with a feeling of pain. 'Just? But who knows, perhaps that's exactly what it is- just, and you know, if I'd been given the job, I'd most certainly have designed things that way!' --- Victor Johnson --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.cdbaby.com/victorjohnson Look for the new album "Parsonage Lane" in March 2003 Produced by Chris Rosser at Hollow Reed Studios
