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"Smerdyakov - a servant with an upsetting back story. His mother was a simpleton and was raped at night as she was sleeping rough by FYDOR himself. She gives birth to Smer in Fydors outhouse and dies, and Grigory and his wife - Fydor's servants - raise him. But he grows up to be strange, and his adoptive parents start to resent him. Fydor has a soft spot for him. He goes on a monologue about apostasy being based." — Dec 26, 2025 03:57AM
"Smerdyakov - a servant with an upsetting back story. His mother was a simpleton and was raped at night as she was sleeping rough by FYDOR himself. She gives birth to Smer in Fydors outhouse and dies, and Grigory and his wife - Fydor's servants - raise him. But he grows up to be strange, and his adoptive parents start to resent him. Fydor has a soft spot for him. He goes on a monologue about apostasy being based." — Dec 26, 2025 03:57AM
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"Catches a nurse in the orphanage getting down to it when he's 5. Is looked after by 'Alice' - a few years older than him then she disappears. Sets the stage for pathological fear/hatred of women? He's adopted but abused by religious nut - the wife enables it. He gets with a waitress but when he learns he's mixed race it all seems to go terribly wrong. I kind of feel bad for him ... but I can't figure out his psyche" — Apr 30, 2025 09:58AM
"Catches a nurse in the orphanage getting down to it when he's 5. Is looked after by 'Alice' - a few years older than him then she disappears. Sets the stage for pathological fear/hatred of women? He's adopted but abused by religious nut - the wife enables it. He gets with a waitress but when he learns he's mixed race it all seems to go terribly wrong. I kind of feel bad for him ... but I can't figure out his psyche" — Apr 30, 2025 09:58AM
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant, I act under orders.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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