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The Book: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
ISBN: 978-1-59308-081-5
Suggested By: Patrick Garcia
Where: Home
When: 9-9:45P
Music: None
Company: The Family
Pages: 426-481(55)
The Lead In: Drove for ten hours today, came home and read 55. Awesome. Awesomely tired.
The 411 on the 55: Very quickly as I am wore out. R’s sister is almost raped by a man who is from her hometown. He uses his knowledge of R’s murdering ways to badger into having sex, but she escapes after shooting at him twice. He, on the other hand, decides to go to America, and holes up in a seedy hotel to wait for the rain to stop.
R considers suicide after meeting with the detective. Porfiry (the dick) tells him that he knows he did it, and R narrowly evades confessing.
Line of the Day: “You, Rodion Romanovich! You are the murderer...” pg 433
Fact on the Fiction: A note on Russian names: Most Russian family names originated from patronymics, that is, father's name usually formed by adding the adjective suffix -ov(a) or -ev(a)). Contemporary patronymics, however, have a substantive suffix -ich for masculine and the adjective suffix -na for feminine. For example, the proverbial triad of most common Russian surnames follows: Ivanov (son of Ivan), Petrov (son of Petr), and Sidorov (son of Sidor).Wikipedia
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