Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

He-he-he!”

Now he was peremptory, stern, frowning and for once laying aside all mystification.

He probably had a headache from all of the weird laughter.

he-he-he!”

There is the weired laughter again

“I should like to wish you success, but your office is such a comical one.”

I will save this insult for use later.

“I should never have expected that beggarly fool would have spent on this feast all the money she got from that other fool, Raskolnikov.

When fools don't even want you, what does that say about you? Although.... I was once rejected for a pyramid scheme......

Pyotr Petrovitch,

Why is Pyotr Petrovitch doing the weird laugh now?

“He-he-he!” Luzhin went on laughing maliciously.

they turn it into ridicule before they understand it.

People still make snap decisions 150 years later, knowing next to nothing.

It was one of Katerina Ivanovna’s characteristics to paint everyone she met in the most glowing colours.

I need to find someone like this!

The party consisted of the Pole, a wretched-looking clerk with a spotty face and a greasy coat, who had not a word to say for himself, and smelt abominably, a deaf and almost blind old man who had once been in the post office and who had been from immemorial ages maintained by someone at Amalia Ivanovna’s.

No one will even come to my funeral dinner so these guests look pretty good to me. People don't even show up for a Zoom call these days!

he drank with fellows who were not worth the sole of his shoe.

Like Raskolnikov.....

Mr. Lebeziatnikov I cannot suspect.

Why not?

Well, what do you say?”

I will say my heartless city friends would say you deserve to be robbed for leaving stacks of money about and let this be a lesson to you. Lol

But in spite of interruptions he spoke clearly, calmly, exactly, firmly.

I advise you to see a doctor for your brains and your short sight.

imagine that I am vain, envious, malicious, base, vindictive and . . . well, perhaps with a tendency to insanity.

Sounds like most people I know....

that if one waits for everyone to get wiser it will take too long.

Sonia,

At times this character is called Sofya. Is this due to a sloppy translation or is there a reason for this?

‘to let everyone see well-born children, whose father was an official, begging in the street.’

This is actually a sensible plan. Some don't care unless they are publicly called out.

Yesterday a man said to me that what a man needs is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air. I

Here we have bookish dreams,

What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!”

For suffering, Rodion Romanovitch, is a great thing.

he was conscious of immense moral fatigue,

The man, moreover, was very unpleasant, evidently depraved, undoubtedly cunning and deceitful, possibly malignant.

Sounds like just another person who lives in the city.

you know I am fond of talking.

“Stop! Enough of your vile, nasty anecdotes, depraved, vile, sensual man!”

Mere existence had always been too little for him; he had always wanted more.