I began rummaging through the books, looking for something light and frivolous to read aloud to Alexandra Mikhailovna.
idk how i forgot to mention until now but bookishness ––– книжности —- is incredibly important to the character arcs of all Dostoyevskian persons. ehhhh it’s a long explanation but just take the conversation between the underground man and liza in notes from underground. ah yes the struggle of having read almost all dussy fiction.

