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Part 2 consists of him putting off his need for others with “dreams” of love and embrace. But he can only go so long before he truly needs to escape that isolated state

Part 1 was the telling of the growths of his isolation and isolated mindset, as well as his obsessiveness with getting “revenge” on the officer who moved him even 2-3 years later. Literally wasting his time on nothingness

The scene where Dostoevsky explores Underground’s perversity of self-sabotage against Rational Egoism’s anthropology (i.e., humans are just self-benefit maximizers) is hilarious!

I wonder if too many readers of Dostoevsky today liken him to something of a modern day Christian apologist? Maybe there’s truth in this, but he’s also devastatingly comedic. I see more Gogol than Christian didacticism.