Thread by @JanJekielek

I've been listening to a reading of @AI_Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. This book is so powerful, so timeless, so important, with some much intellectual fodder for today.

Many have heard, "The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being," but...

2/ what does that actually mean? Only into the 4th chapter, "The Bluecaps," of the Abridged edition (which, incidentally, should be required reading on its own), I'm being blown away, again, about how important this powerful meditation on what humans are capable of, & how/why...

3/ I'll use this thread to post some passages that really grab my attention (& this will take a while, certainly). In case you're wondering this is exactly what I'm listening to, the authorized Abridgment by Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
harpercollins.com/products/the-g…

4/ I've come to find that many of the passages I've been struck by require the context of the chapter to place, will consider how to do this. Sound bites won't do. Part of the magnificence of this work is that it creates a world in your mind that you are invited to contemplate...

5/ For now, let's start w/ this: @AI_Solzhenitsyn's prescient 1978 Commencement Address at Harvard University, "A World Split Apart." Solzhenitsyn's time in the Gulag & contemplation of it gave him incredible insight into the West (text/vid for 1 sitting)
solzhenitsyncenter.org/a-world-split-…