Beauty and the Priest
One of the most influential novels of the past two centuries is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. In that novel, there is an intriguing exchange between Ippolit, a terminally ill and deeply cynical character, and Prince Myshkin, a man of deep goodness and saintly innocence. Ippolit mockingly asks: “Is it true, Prince, that you once said, […]