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Notes from the Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Sarah Bakewell recommends it
Another writer often mentioned is Dostoyevsky: a great way of getting into the real miserabilist side of existentialism is to read his Notes from the Underground. It absolutely captures the anguish of being an isolated individual and a misfit, wondering about your place in the world and being contrary, fighting against the normal human life that you're supposed to fit into.

on fivebooks.com · 2 Jun 2013

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.