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THE HOUSE WITH THE MEZZANINE
bookshelves: e-book, gutenberg-project, spring-2011, re-read, art-forms, philosophy, published-1896, shortstory-shortstories-novellas
Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: 5* Inna
Read on April 12, 2011
** spoiler alert ** 
TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY
S. S. KOTELIANSKY
AND
GILBERT CANNAN
THE HOUSE WITH THE MEZZANINE
(A PAINTER'S STORY)
It happened nigh on seven years ago, when I was living in one of the districts of the J. province, on the estate of Bielokurov, a landowner, a young man who used to get up early, dress himself in a long overcoat, drink beer in the evenings, and all the while complain to me that he could nowhere find any one in sympathy with his ideas.
I cannot buy into the mind meanderings of the artist, his philosophies are just not mine:
On education - "Not education is wanted but freedom for the full development of spiritual capacities. Not schools are wanted but universities."
On medicine - "It should only be used for the investigation of diseases, as
natural phenomenon, not for their cure."
TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY
S. S. KOTELIANSKY
AND
GILBERT CANNAN
THE HOUSE WITH THE MEZZANINE
(A PAINTER'S STORY)
It happened nigh on seven years ago, when I was living in one of the districts of the J. province, on the estate of Bielokurov, a landowner, a young man who used to get up early, dress himself in a long overcoat, drink beer in the evenings, and all the while complain to me that he could nowhere find any one in sympathy with his ideas.
I cannot buy into the mind meanderings of the artist, his philosophies are just not mine:
On education - "Not education is wanted but freedom for the full development of spiritual capacities. Not schools are wanted but universities."
On medicine - "It should only be used for the investigation of diseases, as
natural phenomenon, not for their cure."
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