pedantry

If science could comprehend all phenomena so that eventually in a thoroughly rational society human beings became as predictable as cogs in a machine, then man, driven by this need to know and assert his freedom, would rise up and smash the machine. What the reformers of the Enlightenment, dreaming of a perfect organization of society, had overlooked, Dostoevski saw all too plainly with the novelist's eye: namely, that as modern society becomes more organized and hence more bureaucratized it piles up at its joints petty figures like that of the Underground Man, who beneath their nondescript surface are monsters of frustration and resentment.

M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: "He was selfish and supercilious. He had read so much that he had left his heart in other people's books, and all that remained was dryness. One day I asked him how he came to know so much. He said, 'Not by being such a handsome young man as you. I wasn't in demand, and instead of going out I studied and learned'.

He grinned. __ was trying to remember all the deadly sins the other day,_ he said. __reed,envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry_____ pretty sure irony isn__ a deadly sin._____ pretty sure it is.___ust,_ she said. __ust is a deadly sin.___nd spanking.___ think that falls under lust.___ think it should have its own category,_ said Jace. __reed, envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry, lust, and spanking.