The Lottery Ticket
by Anton Chekhov
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Ivan Dmitritch, a middle-class man who lived with his family on an income of twelve hundred a year and was very well satisfied with his lot, sat down on the sofa after supper and began reading the newspaper.Tags
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Enjoyable and amusing short story about a couple who imagine what they would do if they won the lottery. (And how their thoughts go from happy to angry towards each other when they think of what they would do with the money they would win).
“The last true Christian died on a cross”
-Nietzsche
One thing people often forget about Jesus was that he had a choice. He could’ve taken the worldly pleasures offered by the opposer, he could’ve ran away, he could’ve shown wrath or any other pursuit. And yet he didn’t.
Christ made a choice to be frugal, to be chaste, to be ‘above it all’ and actively rejected it.
People see their lives (perhaps they’re ugly, homeless, destitute, etc) and say “literally me” but what they don’t realise is that they’ve never been tested.
Power doesn’t corrupt, it only brings out who you truly are. Virtue of minimalism can only be called a virtue if it’s chosen, if you have power of doing otherwise. If not the case, it’s show more sloth, complacency, delusion, etc.
Though I don’t like Buddha, Christ, etc who reject the life in its entirety- I am grateful for this lesson. show less
-Nietzsche
One thing people often forget about Jesus was that he had a choice. He could’ve taken the worldly pleasures offered by the opposer, he could’ve ran away, he could’ve shown wrath or any other pursuit. And yet he didn’t.
Christ made a choice to be frugal, to be chaste, to be ‘above it all’ and actively rejected it.
People see their lives (perhaps they’re ugly, homeless, destitute, etc) and say “literally me” but what they don’t realise is that they’ve never been tested.
Power doesn’t corrupt, it only brings out who you truly are. Virtue of minimalism can only be called a virtue if it’s chosen, if you have power of doing otherwise. If not the case, it’s show more sloth, complacency, delusion, etc.
Though I don’t like Buddha, Christ, etc who reject the life in its entirety- I am grateful for this lesson. show less
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in the provincial town of Taganrog, Ukraine, in 1860. In the mid-1880s, Chekhov became a physician, and shortly thereafter he began to write short stories. Chekhov started writing plays a few years later, mainly short comic sketches he called vaudvilles. The first collection of his humorous writings, Motley show more Stories, appeared in 1886, and his first play, Ivanov, was produced in Moscow the next year. In 1896, the Alexandrinsky Theater in St. Petersburg performed his first full- length drama, The Seagull. Some of Chekhov's most successful plays include The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, and Three Sisters. Chekhov brought believable but complex personalizations to his characters, while exploring the conflict between the landed gentry and the oppressed peasant classes. Chekhov voiced a need for serious, even revolutionary, action, and the social stresses he described prefigured the Communist Revolution in Russia by twenty years. He is considered one of Russia's greatest playwrights. Chekhov contracted tuberculosis in 1884, and was certain he would die an early death. In 1901, he married Olga Knipper, an actress who had played leading roles in several of his plays. Chekhov died in 1904, spending his final years in Yalta. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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