The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Monday, September 8, 2014

Dostoevsky, always good for a laugh

Reading Devils.

Night.

Stavrogin: Everyone deserves an umbrella.

Captain Lebyadkin: In one little phrase you've defined the minimum of human rights.

Lebyadkin a little later mumbles to himself about Stavrogin, "He lives to harm other people."

A little later Stavrogin tells Fedka, the convict, who has recently robbed a church and murdered his accomplice, "Go on killing, go on stealing."

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