If you were some kind of wise guy, you could pie chart Crime and Punishment like this: 95% punishment, and 5% crime. But PWxyz takes pie charts seriously, and we didn’t spend all that money on all this hi-tech pie-making equipment just to mail our pies in. We carefully craft our pies (previously, Underworld pie and Madame Bovary pie) with the finest ingredients.
Raskolnikov said: “The fear of aesthetics is the first symptom of powerlessness.” Well, then we are powerless, Mr. Raskolnikov, for we care about aesthetics. Ah, put down that axe!
My exact thoughts as I was reading this book.
And when he finally crossed the street he got hit by a car and dies… Classic Russian for you
Cherry — not to be confused with cheery.
This brings up the old technique for defining the diffierence between a French, American, and a Russian novel… In the American novel the boy chases a girl until she catches him; in a French novel the girl chases the boy till he catches her; in Russia they glare at each other from across the street and obsess about it for the next 800 pages……..
SO TRUE Kevin! One of the main reasons Russian lit and I have never been friends.