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What could he wink for? Are they trying to upset my nerves or are they teasing me? Either its ill fancy or they know! Even Zametov is rude. Is Zametov rude? Zametov has changed his mind. I foresaw he would change his mind! He is at home here, while its my first visit. Porfiry does not consider him a visitor; sits with his back to him. Theyre as thick as thieves, no doubt, over me! Not a doubt they were talking about me before we came. Do they know about the flat? If only theyd make haste! When I said that I ran away to take a flat he let it pass. I put that in cleverly about a flat, it may be of use afterwards. Delirious, indeed ha-ha-ha! He knows all about last night! He didnt know of my mothers arrival! The hag had written the date on in pencil! You are wrong, you wont catch me! There are no facts its all supposition! You produce facts! The flat even isnt a fact but delirium. I know what to say to them. Do they know about the flat? I wont go without finding out. What did I come for? But my being angry now, maybe is a fact! Fool, how irritable I am! Perhaps thats right; to play the invalid. He is feeling me. He will try to catch me. Why did I come? All this flashed like lightning through his mind. Porfiry Petrovitch returned quickly. He became suddenly more jovial. Your party yesterday, brother, has left my head rather. And I am out of sorts altogether, he began in quite a different tone, laughing to Razumihin. Was it interesting? I left you yesterday at the most interesting point. Who got the best of it? Oh, no one, of course. They got on to everlasting questions, floated off into space. Only fancy, Rodya, what we got on to yesterday. Whether there is such a thing as crime. I told you that we talked our heads off. What is there strange? Its an everyday social question, Raskolnikov answered casually. The question wasnt put quite like that, observed Porfiry. Not quite, thats true, Razumihin agreed at once, getting warm and hurried as usual. Listen, Rodion, and tell us your opinion, I want to hear it. I was fighting tooth and nail with them and wanted you to help me. I told them you were coming. It began with the socialist doctrine. You know their doctrine; crime is a protest against the abnormality of the social organisation and nothing more, and nothing more; no other causes admitted! You are wrong there, cried Porfiry Petrovitch; he was noticeably animated and kept laughing as he looked at Razumihin, which made him more excited than ever. Nothing is admitted, Razumihin interrupted with heat. I am not wrong. Ill show you their pamphlets. Everything with them is the influence of environment, and nothing else. Their favourite phrase! From which it follows that, if society is normally organised, all crime will cease at once, since there will be nothing to protest against and all men will become righteous in one instant. Human nature is not taken into account, it is excluded, its not supposed to exist! They dont recognise that humanity, developing by a historical living process, will become at last a normal society, but they believe that a social system that has come out of some mathematical brain is going to organise all humanity at once and make it just and sinless in an instant, quicker than any living process! Thats why they instinctively dislike history, nothing but ugliness and stupidity in it, and they explain it all as stupidity! Thats why they so dislike the living process of life; they dont want a living soul! The living soul demands life, the soul wont obey the rules of mechanics, the soul is an object of suspicion, the soul is retrograde! But what they want though it smells of death and can be made of India-rubber, at least is not alive, has no will, is servile and wont revolt! And it comes in the end to their reducing everything to the building of walls and the planning of rooms and passages in a phalanstery! The phalanstery |
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