Status Updates From The House of the Dead

The letters are so tiny. This might become something I finish in a day or read during a queue/wait.

It was nothing to them that the punishment when it did come, two months later, would be twice or three times as severe; all they care about was deferring the awful moment if only for a few days at any cost—so extreme is sometimes the prostration of spirit of these poor creatures.

Just like man deferring penitence because to him the Day of Judgment is far enough.

Muito interessante o capítulo sobre o hospital do presídio. Nele, o Dostoiévski fala sobre coisas chocantes: a chegada de um preso após uma sessão de chicotadas e, em seguida, a morte e a lamentação entre os presos. Muito triste, mas real.