Notes From The Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Part I.
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The Impossibility of Absurdity
Listen sometimes to the moans of an educated man of the nineteenth century suffering from toothache. If they are not candid moans they are malignant moans, and the malignancy is the whole point. The enjoyment of the sufferer finds expression in those moans - if he did not feel enjoyment in them he would not moan. Well, these mortal insults, these jeers on the part of someone unknown, end at last in an enjoyment which sometimes reaches the highest degree of aluptuousness. No, our developments and our consciousness must go further to understand all intricacies of this pleasure. You do not understand it now even though you see me through my despicable moans?
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