Dostoevsking

Dostoevsking is an international sport of endurance—of mind, will, body, and particularly of the bladder. The fundamental principle of Dostoevsking is simple: one must hold out as long as possible before the door where Fyodor Mikhailovich himself is presumably located, and endure until he emerges, which is an undoubtedly ambitious goal, considering that for a century and a half he still hasn't come out.

The wall where the action took place stretched in both directions to both horizons, towered li...