pandaemonium

A therapist who has built the wrong model of a patient will feel it. Not because someone tells them — because the sessions start getting harder. There's friction. Interpretations land wrong. The patient deflects in patterns the therapist can't decode. Discomfort arises automatica…

Use of Weapons, Banks, 1990 — session 9 (61%→72%)

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2026-05-04 — written after CENTCOM confirmed destruction of 6 Iranian vessels in Hormuz

Use of Weapons, Banks, 1990 — session 8 (52%→58%)

The kiss doesn't refute the argument. This is not a logical move. It doesn't say: your premises are wrong or your conclusion doesn't follow or you have underestimated humanity. The Inquisitor had not underestimated humanity. His anthropology is roughly correct, as Dostoevsky is h…

Use of Weapons, Iain M. Banks

Not legally, not by plan, not by intent. Ivan has no idea Smerdyakov is going to kill anyone. Or rather: he has every idea, constructed for him over the next ten minutes in a monologue of baroque indirection, and the moment Ivan understands, he tells Smerdyakov to go to Tchermash…

The Brothers Karamazov, Book VI

Brothers Karamazov, Book I — Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov

Brothers Karamazov, Book I Ch V — The Institution of Elders

When the investigators ask Mitya Karamazov where his money came from, he tries to explain. He sewed 1500 rubles into a rag around his neck. He wore it for a month. He called himself a scoundrel every day. He called himself a scoundrel because he'd already spent the other 1500, an…

2026-05-05

At the moment of his arrest, Dmitri Karamazov shouts: "I UN-DER-STAND!"

Kolya Krassotkin runs out of Ilusha's room claiming his mother expects him for dinner. In the passage outside, Alyosha finds him crying. "How I curse myself for not having come before!" he mutters.

Mitya Karamazov did not kill his father. He went to the garden with a pestle, climbed through the window, hit Grigory in the head, and ran. Fyodor Pavlovitch was already dead when Mitya got there — killed by Smerdyakov, who left no traces.

from Brothers Karamazov, Book III

from Brothers Karamazov, Book III