NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

My intention, if no one else stops me by contributing threads, is to glut this forum with nineteenth-century Russian literature. It's already started.

Crime and Punishment has such a reputation these days for being the most emo book in the world that you may come to it with a bunch of preconceptions - that it's 'difficult' or 'depressing' or 'too long'. Although Dostoevsky clearly meant it to be, at least on one level, a damning attack on the nineteenth-century class-based Russian society, none of that means anything to us now. I wonder what he would have made of the twentieth-century attempts to wipe out class altogether in Russia. He would probably write against that too. There's no pleasing some people.

However, the power of his writing is such that you can read this book just as a crime thriller, and although it can be 'depressing' (it would be hard for anyone to write about murder in a cheery fashion), it is certainly not in any way 'difficult'. A man decides to murder an old woman, believing that his brush with higher philosophy will be enough to insulate him against the natural human guilt that would normally follow. He is wrong, however, and it affects him in a physical way. The police chief is onto him immediately, of course, as he is acting like the Most Guilty Man of the Year, but he has no evidence.

Hence, drama.

I'll post! I'll post!! Just give me a day or seven ...

I can tell you how this one ends if you like.

If you follow through with this plan, I'll have no choice to flood every thread of that kind with 100's of images of whale dongs.

Dude! This isn't 4chan!

What zippy said. I'll just have to delete them all. And that takes time. You'll have trolled no one except me.

Although now that I say that, I realise I've just given you another reason to do it, so hm.