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Because I'm reading a classic novel I of course get all into ALL NOVELS as if I'm going to go on a novel reading spree of all classic novels, &c. Of course, I already have done that! And I know this. I'm just interested in the subject of course because I'm reading a classic novel currently. It's, as I stated from the beginning, a "slight detour". I just wanted to read a classic novel as a break from all the theology.

Of those five novels below I could probably read The Brothers Karamazov with some profit. The others I am pretty much fully familiar with. I read Dostoevsky though when I was in beginning stages of my 'B Influence period', so it would be interesting to read his big novel to see the contrast in my level of understanding then and now.

I don't want the cycle of Work teaching and development that occured to dissipate or be lessened in anybody's mind. -- edited -- Part of the reason (getting back on subject) I was drawn to reading a classic novel is because the great ones are actually pretty strange creations, and when you can see them very clearly with understanding it's just fun to get into their world more than a history or work of philosophy or some other kind of literature and to follow the novelist's mind and the living characters and all of it.

But a return to Work subject matter has to - by law - be more serious (which means more direct effort) than a previous cycle. So, that means, for me anyway, I would be coming from some power and inspiration (from my own individual efforts) and just hitting on and eludicating and describing and being hardcore on the basics. Practically speaking that's what a next round would consist of. I'd probably keep the theology out of it and let it reside 'there' yet unmentioned above the field. I'd have it, though, practically in my own understanding. What the theology does, when you see it, is provide the container for the full cosmos of the Work to reside in.