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lauraredcloud) wrote2010-01-21 06:59 pm
lauraredcloud) wrote2010-01-21 06:59 pm
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Crime and Punishment 6.1: SO MANY BUSHES
6.1
He does talk to Svidrigailov a few times, but neither of them mentions IT. Svidrigailov does give the orphans some money and arranges for them to be placed in school. Everyone attends Katerina Ivanovna's funeral.
The immediate danger of arrest is at an all-time low, but Raskolnikov feels worse than ever:
Raskolnikov is just waking up in mid-afternoon at his apartment, as usual, when who should come in unannounced by Razumihin! Again! Back! I thought we were done with him! I'm glad we're not but it kind of feels like fanservice. FANSERVICE, DOSTOEVSKY. J'ACCUSE. (Is that possible? Did this even run as a serial?) Razumihin knows Raskolnikov has a secret, and he doesn't want to hear any details, he just wants to know once and for all whether Raskolnikov is insane. Like Raskolnikov the most reliable source on that. I wouldn't trust him to tell a hawk from a handsaw. Razumihin gives him a talking-to for being mean to his mother and sister, finishing with, "And I know exactly what to do." Raskolnikov correctly guesses that Razumihin means he's going to go drinking.
Raskolnikov detains Razumihin long enough to tell him that Dunia is clearly in love with him. So, that's nice. That's a nice little good deed he's taking time out of his moping to do.
Raskolnikov finishes up by making some his standard cryptic remarks, and Razumihin thinks to himself that Raskolnikov must be a "political conspirator." Razumihin, you disappoint me. I thought you knew? I thought you looked in his eyes and JUST KNEW in a SEXY FLASH OF UNDERSTANDING?confession of love suspicions, and just closes the door behind him. Exit Razumihin. Final curtain. Well, that was a pretty good scene to finish up his storyline with. I...
Razumihin immediately re-opens the door and sticks his head back in the room. Oh, I give up.
In a by-the-by kind of way he tells Raskolnikov that Porfiry has solved the murder of the old woman and Lizaveta--it was one of the painters from the apartment below.Well, of course he now denies it, you'd expect that of a con, but he couldn't run forever, no, not even Jean Valjean! No, actually, the painter, Nikolai, confessed. One of the other workmen, a friend of his, was arrested first, and then Nikolai came forth and gave a full confession. Well, that's just an adorable conflict of interest! Raskolnikov is all, wait, what?
Razumihin leaves, and Raskolnikov ponders for awhile, wondering if he's really gotten away with it, and what he should do now. Svidrigailov remains a problem, and Raskolnikov goes to settle things with him one way or another (the "how" is vague here). When he opens the door, he runs into Porfiry just coming up to pay him a visit. OH NO! WHY?
A strange period began for Raskolnikov: it was as though a fog had fallen upon him and wrapped him in a dreary solitude from which there was no escape.How is this strange, exactly? It seems pretty par for the course for Raskolnikov. He spends several days or weeks not going to the police, but being constantly worried about Svidrigailov and what he might say.
Another time he woke up before daybreak lying on the ground under some bushes and could not at first understand how he had come there.I say again: SO WHAT ELSE IS NEW?
He does talk to Svidrigailov a few times, but neither of them mentions IT. Svidrigailov does give the orphans some money and arranges for them to be placed in school. Everyone attends Katerina Ivanovna's funeral.
The immediate danger of arrest is at an all-time low, but Raskolnikov feels worse than ever:
“Here I sit listening to singing, is that what I ought to be doing?” he thought. Yet he felt at once that that was not the only cause of his uneasiness; there was something requiring immediate decision, but it was something he could not clearly understand or put into words. It was a hopeless tangle. “No, better the struggle again! Better Porfiry again…or Svidrigaïlov…Better some challenge again…some attack. Yes, yes!” he thought.Interesting - it's true that this whole book he's done much better and seemed much more lucid and sparkly when there is some immediate danger or activity.
That night he woke up before morning among some bushes in Krestovsky Island, trembling all over with fever...And, this whole book he has been doing that, too. I AM SERIOUS THIS IS A DIFFERENT BUSH FROM THE BUSH BEFORE. I AM JUST GOING IN ORDER HERE.
Raskolnikov is just waking up in mid-afternoon at his apartment, as usual, when who should come in unannounced by Razumihin! Again! Back! I thought we were done with him! I'm glad we're not but it kind of feels like fanservice. FANSERVICE, DOSTOEVSKY. J'ACCUSE. (Is that possible? Did this even run as a serial?) Razumihin knows Raskolnikov has a secret, and he doesn't want to hear any details, he just wants to know once and for all whether Raskolnikov is insane. Like Raskolnikov the most reliable source on that. I wouldn't trust him to tell a hawk from a handsaw. Razumihin gives him a talking-to for being mean to his mother and sister, finishing with, "And I know exactly what to do." Raskolnikov correctly guesses that Razumihin means he's going to go drinking.
“You always have been a very rational person and you've never been mad, never,” he observed suddenly with warmth. “You're right: I shall drink. Goodbye!”Ha!
Raskolnikov detains Razumihin long enough to tell him that Dunia is clearly in love with him. So, that's nice. That's a nice little good deed he's taking time out of his moping to do.
Raskolnikov finishes up by making some his standard cryptic remarks, and Razumihin thinks to himself that Raskolnikov must be a "political conspirator." Razumihin, you disappoint me. I thought you knew? I thought you looked in his eyes and JUST KNEW in a SEXY FLASH OF UNDERSTANDING?
“Good-bye, Rodion. There was a time, brother, when I…Never mind, good-bye. You see, there was a time… Well, goodbye!”I--er--I--er--I think I'd better go. In the end, Razumihin fails to spit out his
Razumihin immediately re-opens the door and sticks his head back in the room. Oh, I give up.
In a by-the-by kind of way he tells Raskolnikov that Porfiry has solved the murder of the old woman and Lizaveta--it was one of the painters from the apartment below.
“Yes, yes; good-bye. I'll tell you all about it another time, but now I'm busy. There was a time when I fancied…But no matter, another time!…What need is there for me to drink now? You have made me drunk without wine. I am drunk, Rodya! Good-bye, I'm going. I'll come again very soon.”Oh, so that explains the new political-conspirator theories. Razumihin LOVES not thinking Rodya is a murder! It makes him high on life!
Razumihin leaves, and Raskolnikov ponders for awhile, wondering if he's really gotten away with it, and what he should do now. Svidrigailov remains a problem, and Raskolnikov goes to settle things with him one way or another (the "how" is vague here). When he opens the door, he runs into Porfiry just coming up to pay him a visit. OH NO! WHY?
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