Without his own special, personal occupation, to which he was committed with all his mind, with all his reckoning, a man could not live in prison.
This is a important development of the second theme: the alive dead house and its special people. What is the prison, in a thematic sense? In hre, Goryanchikov makes it sound frightfully similar to life.
Dostoyevsky himself does not agree with Goryanchikov and evidently sees "prison" as an anti-life. So we went in a circle: what is prison?
