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  I love this song by NOFX out of the Bay Area, San Francisco USA Love you mom for raising me by yourself and love you punk rock for teaching me values. I'm reminded of this song, Fleas, by NOFX My father used to say You sleep with dogs the next day You'll wake up in the bed scratching Those inevitable fleas At ten years old You listen to what you're told But I never felt the itch I never would My mother had forbidden me To waste away my life "I want you to have all the things I could never buy you So don't stop what I'd begun You're my one and only son Follow what I say, not what I've done." Shower, scrub, and shave Cleanly boys don't misbehave Follow what I say, not what I've done Source:  LyricFind Songwriters: Mike Burkett Fleas lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

 ENG 605: Dostoevsky. Death. For class this week I wrote a critique examining the death of Ippolit Terentyev from  The Idiot  in dialogue with Neitzshcean concepts of free will, the will to power and the nihilistic rejection of God regarding death. So, before I begin, here are some photos from my collection that I would like to share. Life has been good. Critique 4: Ippolit and his “Necessary Explanation”: A Confrontation with Death. For this week’s critique regarding The Idiot , I would like to explore the death of Ippolit Terentyev, more particularly in his “Necessary Explanation,” the writings of the consumptive, dying Young Nihilist of Russia. In Part Three, chapters 5-7, Dostoevsky is writing from the perspective of a Nihilist who rejects God.              In Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 , Joseph Frank writes that both characters Ippolit and Nastasya function as a “Supreme example in Dostoevsky...