RE: Soul

Eugene Matusov (ematusov who-is-at UDel.Edu)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 18:52:16 -0400

Hi Francoise and everybody--

Francoise wrote,
> Could someone kindly explain what "soul" is ?

According to Bakhtin, soul is a gift of one person to another by
completing, narrating, describing person's spirit. Some gifts are
unpleasant but as a Russian proverb says (in my poor translation), "One
should not check teeth of the horse given as a gift."

Eugene
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