While pondering blogging this morning I considered my blogspot Title: Notes from the Underground. My thoughts on first naming the blog such centered around posting thoughts and ideas coming from out of the mainstream, so to speak. Today I remembered the original Notes from the Underground was written by Dostoyevsky. When I looked that up on google, I found this interesting review.
"Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the absurdities and weakness of humans seem so fresh and incisive today that if published now (a century and a half later) Notes would be considered an avant-garde post-modernist triumph. In some ways this is a heavy text, laden with conversational philosophizing; but the vividness of the narrator make it a wonderful read, and funny."
(Review by Hugh McGuire)
While I am not, by any means, a civil servant, albeit, perhaps somewhat crazy (the C&W outlaw Waylon Jennings had a song saying "I've always been crazy, it keeps me from going insane.")I would like to think my insights are, indeed, looking into the absurdities and weakness of human nature.
Anyway, that is my one thought for the day. I'll probably think more tomorrow. LOL.
Peace.
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