Clay Robson’s Reviews > Crime and Punishment > Status Update

'"Everyone's making themselves better-off by various means, so I wanted to do the same in as short a time as possible."' ... "People have grown accustomed to having everything ready-made for them, they're used to depending on the guidance of others, having everything chewed for them first."

“But now this latest day, which had dawned so unexpectedly and had decided everything, acted on him in almost a mechanical fashion: as though someone had taken him by the hand and pulled him along behind him, inexorably, blindly, with unnatural force, countenancing no objections. As though a corner of his clothing had got caught in the flywheel of a machine, and he was beginning to be drawn into it.”