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Do you simpatize with the underground man?
Was apollon a figment of his imagination?

>> No.10858426

>>10857565
I am the underground man. He was the first character I ever related to.

>> No.10858452

>Was apollon a figment of his imagination?
Is this a real theory? I sympathized with him, I think we can all remember times we did something stupid just to prove we could. He isn't a good person, but neither am I.

>> No.10858505

Unfortunately

>> No.10858996

>>10857565
I read it when I was 21, I was deeply unnerved because everything about the underground man was in line with my mire of self-aware dread that I'd never been able to pin down until I saw it "in person".
The whole sequence with the prostitute girl was like an r9k greentext thread that hits so close to home it becomes hard to keep reading.

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>Two hours later he would come out again and again present himself before me in the same way. It had happened that in my fury I did not even ask him what he wanted, but simply raised my head sharply and imperiously and began staring back at him. So we stared at one another for two minutes; at last he turned with deliberation and dignity and went back again for two hours.