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I finished Notes From Underground. I must confess that I didn’t really understand the 2nd part of the book. Although I recognized and related to some of the suffering, especially being ashamed of your own poverty and the fear of responsibility for others, it was still confusing how he had empathy for Liza and yet was so cruel to her. It is probably full of metaphors and stuff that folk in literature classes understand, but not me. Still brilliant stuff though and I went back through Part 1 and enjoyed it even more 2nd time around.I didn’t win the auction for the RavenWest guitar I was bidding for on EBay. Could have won it (I usually throw in a bid in the last 20 seconds) but I was wrapped up in other stuff at the end of the auction and forgot all about it. Bummer, it was a beauty....

Ben_ji81 was asking about how I was doing with my drinking and therapy. My drinking is OK just now, about 50 units a week (around 5 bottles of 13% wine over the week). Surely no big shakes you might think but technichally this is categorized as harmful drinking, i.e. increases my risk of liver disease and depression. Clinicians have very negative and subjective views about such behaviour (despite the fact that most of them drink more than this, but they will of course argue that they don't have a significant mental health problem). They take no such subjective view on people who particpate in dangerous sports, no, that is free will, that is choice, that is good, healthy, in fact bravery. An admirable quality, not a weakness, not a disease. Nor do they take a dim view of people who opt...

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