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"Grief, my friend, lurks even in gilded palaces, and you can't escape from it anywhere."
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"...our hero tried to address Olsufy Ivanovich with a touching outpouring of his soul; but in the fullness of all that had accumulated within him he could not explain anything whatsoever, and, with a very eloquent gesture, merely pointed in silence to his heart..."
— Oct 07, 2021 03:32PM
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"...our hero tried to address Olsufy Ivanovich with a touching outpouring of his soul; but in the fullness of all that had accumulated within him he could not explain anything whatsoever, and, with a very eloquent gesture, merely pointed in silence to his heart..."
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Abdul
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What drew me in CAP and PP is the relatability of the main characters: myopic and misguided Raskolnikov, coarse and clingy Devushkin. I found no mirror in NFU, until the chapter where Golyadkin dreams of licking the boots of his colleagues, desperate for their approval.
I realized I was like him - the stilted speech, the misreckoning of social cues, and the proud moralizing - and so began to pity and root for him.
— Oct 07, 2021 03:31PM
I realized I was like him - the stilted speech, the misreckoning of social cues, and the proud moralizing - and so began to pity and root for him.
Abdul
is on page 92 of 208
"The thing was that Mr. Golyadkin forgot about his last doubts, released his heart to freedom and joy and, finally, committed himself mentally to the rank of an idiot."
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"But I won't let myself be soiled like a rag. I've not let myself be soiled by bigger people than him, still less will I allow a man who's corrupt to have a try at it. I'm not a rag; I, good sir, am not a rag!"
— Oct 03, 2021 09:12PM
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"But I won't let myself be soiled like a rag. I've not let myself be soiled by bigger people than him, still less will I allow a man who's corrupt to have a try at it. I'm not a rag; I, good sir, am not a rag!"
Abdul
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It feels like a step down from his debut novel; and it's baffling to me, curious and surprising, that though it is still concerned with social status as Poor People/Poor Folk, and though it is already showing Dostoevsky's concern with interiority as in Crime and Punishment - both novels that I enjoyed - that The Double, despite the promise of its premise, does not make for compulsive reading... so far.
— Oct 03, 2021 09:07PM
