Mwiza’s Reviews > White Nights > Status Update

“Listen: you tell it splendidly, but could you tell it somehow less splendidly? Otherwise, you talk as well, you were reading from the book.” Thank you Nastenka, my thoughts exactly 👏🏾👏🏾

As I keep reading, the idea becomes more firmly cemented in my head that he uses superfluous language. Idk if that’s a sign of the times, the fault of the translation, or whether or not it’s intentional by Dostoyevsky, but the main guy loves using big unnecessary words and repeating
himself often times using phrases that are pleonastic.

What does it mean to assume a “pedantically serious pose?” What does that even look like?*scratches head

“I have so little real life that I regard such moments as this one, now, to be so rare, but I can’t help repeating these moments in my dreams.”