Sankara Jayanth S’s Reviews > Ward No. 6 > Status Update

"A doctrine which advocates indifference to wealth and to the comforts of life, and a contempt for suffering and death, is quite unintelligible to the vast majority of men, since that majority has never known wealth or the comforts of life; and to despise suffering would mean to it despising life itself, since the whole existence of man is made up of the sensations of hunger, cold, injury, and dread of death."

The prose!!!! I'm speechless....Speechless. I have no speech!



P.S: I believe there is a Seinfeld GIF for every conceivable situation and emotion.

"People who have an official, professional relation to other men's sufferings—for instance, judges, police officers, doctors—in course of time, through habit, grow so callous that they cannot, even if they wish it, take any but a formal attitude to their clients; in this respect they are not different from the peasant who slaughters sheep and calves in the back-yard, and does not notice the blood."

2nd read this year. I loved the derpessing atmosphere and the existential arguments thrown back and forth between a mental institution inmate and the visiting doctor.

Some of the prose and scenes in this book are hauntingly beautiful and profound. The way the story shapes up is unsettling.

If the aim of medicine is by drugs to alleviate suffering, the question forces itself: why alleviate it? They say that suffering leads man to perfection; if mankind really learns to alleviate its sufferings, it will completely abandon religion and philosophy, in which it has hitherto found not merely protection from all sorts of trouble, but even happiness.

This story is great, the writing is incredible.