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Hard for me to parse the bit about Levin being Stiva's friend of his youth as anything but a kind of dig at Dostoevsky (cf. the memorable, similar passage re Raskolnikov and Razumikhin). Either that or "friend of one's youth" is a Russian commonplace, but I prefer to believe the former.
— May 13, 2011 09:10PM
