tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post1789162936649018779..comments2023-10-25T09:49:43.089+01:00Comments on BEN'S PRISON BLOG - Lifer On The Loose: Solzhenitsyn wrote...prisonerbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14923205052778958118noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-32230174988673972602009-11-03T21:17:40.893+00:002009-11-03T21:17:40.893+00:00I'm gonna 'tumble' this :)I'm gonna 'tumble' this :)Gainahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08495953058626656188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-77814566738853233402009-11-03T11:05:29.599+00:002009-11-03T11:05:29.599+00:00It''s a pity Solzhenitsyn went off the rai...It''s a pity Solzhenitsyn went off the rails a bit at the end of his life because the clarity of his moral vision in The Gulag Archipelago was very good. I read it in the last year of school and it has influenced me ever since that pigeonholing people as good/bad/evil is far too simplistic. <br /><br />Strangely it is those should believe most strongly in the power of redemption who are strongest on the idea of absolutes like this.Peter in Dundeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-90715763730076193822009-11-03T02:04:29.672+00:002009-11-03T02:04:29.672+00:00What a good quote for this blog! People who dismis...What a good quote for this blog! People who dismiss prisoners as being undeserving of anything but vengeful contempt miss entirely the opportunity to make prison work. Everyone has some good potential. Destroying the good inside them by relentlessly criminalising their every attitude and action is a crime in itself.YagiBirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06779431797609509966noreply@blogger.com