Raoul's Tuesday Response

With the completion of Notes From the Underground I am relieved. I believe that I understand many of the arguments and views that Dostoyevsky has brought up; however, I do not agree with many of them. Never the less, I do find all of his ideas to be interesting and I have found myself contemplating them throughout the past few days. Anyway, in today's reading there were two ideas in particular that stood out to me. The first one, that I noticed, was the bipolar tendency of human desire. At first we want some thing, and we drive our selves mad trying to get it and contemplating over it (In the words of the narrator it is "everything"). But as soon as we get it or as soon as it is in front of us, we get sick of it we tell it to "get out". I believe this is one of the things that we see between Liza and the narrator. The other idea, that I noticed in today's reading, was the boringness of reality and the boringness of a world in which our "petulant prayers" are answered. This one I have been thinking about for a long time (before I read the book). First of all, reality is boring (this book is reality and that is why it is boring) that is why we love our fictional stories where the impossible or the improbable occur. Second of all, a world where we were gods would also get boring, because (if we go back to an idea from part 1) there would be no suffering, no suffering to bring joy, no randomness to add spice. In fact one of my favorite lectures was about this subject. But I'm not going to talk about it so I'm just going to post a link to the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViiDGWK1CHU.