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RE: Odds and Ends — 18 May 2026

in #oddsandends • 3 days ago

I don’t even remember who Raskolnikov murdered.

😇

From what I remember, it's not so much who he killed as why he killed them. It became a whole philosophical discussion about crime and guilt.

I love Dostoyevsky. First read him when I was in high school, and I was stunned. Opened up a world for me. The Idiot was my first book. I didn't know people had those thoughts, that there could be such a way of looking at life. Of course now I see that Dostoyevsky was flawed, but he was profound. That's what I was looking for, I think, when I was young.

Anyway, here I go again :))