Dostoevsky was 28 when they stood him in front of a firing squad. Blindfolded. Hands tied. He could hear the rifles being loaded.
At the last second a messenger on horseback arrived. The Tsar had commuted the sentence. The entire execution was staged. Psychological torture designed to break him.
It worked. He had a seizure on the spot.
They sent him to a labour camp in Siberia. 4 years. Freezing. Starving. Sleeping on wooden planks next to murderers. His epilepsy got worse. He had no paper. No pen. Nothing.
When he got out he was broke. His first wife died. His brother died. He inherited his brothers debts. He was so desperate for money he signed a contract with a publisher that would have given away the rights to everything hed ever write if he missed the deadline.
He wrote The Gambler in 26 days to make it. Dictated it to a 20 year old stenographer named Anna. Married her three months later.
Then the real work started. Crime and Punishment. The Idiot. Demons. The Brothers Karamazov. The greatest novels in the history of the Russian language. Maybe any language.
The man who stood blindfolded before the firing squad, who convulsed on the ground while soldiers watched, who slept next to killers in Siberia for 4 years, who was buried in debt and grief.
That man wrote: "every minute can be an eternity of happiness."
He earned the right to say it.
its never over. never give up fren.
🇲🇽🇵🇪‼️| URGENTE — PERÚ ANUNCIA QUE ROMPE RELACIONES DIPLOMÁTICAS CON MÉXICO.
El gobierno peruano acaba de descubrir que la Embajada de México en Lima está ocultando en sus instalaciones a Betssy Chávez, una de las principales prófugas de la justicia del Perú.
Escándalo mundial.
This is Miyamoto. I am pleased to announce that for the live-action film of The Legend of Zelda, Zelda will be played by Bo Bragason-san, and Link by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth-san. I am very much looking forward to seeing both of them on the big screen. (1/2)
🔴 BREAKING: The U.S. Army now has a weapon that can instantly fry entire drone swarms.
It's not a laser.
It's not a missile.
It’s Leonidas — a microwave cannon that sends out a pulse and melts electronics mid-air ⚡
No ammo. No reload. Just pure energy.
One blast = 50+ drones down.
Built for the wars of the future. 🇺🇸
📡 Meet the weapon that makes air defense look like science fiction:
Christopher Nolan’s next movie is rumored to be a period horror about vampires in the 1920s.
Starring Tom Holland and Matt Damon.
(Source: gizmodo.com/christopher-no…)