Day Ninety-Five

7/5

The Book: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

ISBN: 978-1-59308-081-5

Suggested By: Patrick Garcia

Where: Home (Longview, Tx)

When: 8-8:45

Music:None

Company: Family

Pages: 146-201(55)

The Lead In: Being on vacation makes reading more difficult, but not impossible.

The 411 on the 55: The badgering of Raskolnikov continues until he has had enough and forces everyone out of his apartment. After they leave he gathers up and heads out to drink tea. While there, his friend, Zametov, comes in and, in the course of one of his diatribes, he admits to killing the lady and her sister, but his friend seems to assume he is still sick.

After leaving the bar, Raskolnikov happens to walk past an accident. A drunk (turns out to be a drunk R had met previously) has been run over by his car. It is a touching, but cynical scene when he is brought in to die on the couch. R hands a handle-full of money over to his widow and seems to change his view on life.

Upon arriving him, he discovers his sister and mother and fights with them over his sister’s engagement. Two of his friends decide his sister is hot and begin hitting on her. Ah, with friends like that...

Line of the Day: “Where is it I’ve read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he’d only got room to stand, with the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live like that than to die at one! Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!” pg 154

Fact on the Fiction: Great quote. "Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss!" -- Einstein