{"id":"01KFE0EZA4KDN0P8S43NPSP1CJ","cid":"bafkreidz37v6bpgw62mdk5hbplhdxkmjgw32yco355gh53rs6sriolxihy","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreidzpoeaqqwfnuln2wkeaafm3kxma5njnhavzguriss66t3v3bjdxy","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0329.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923036558-94n9pbzuqwv","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0329.jpg","page_number":329,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":214498,"text":"L\nCRIME AND PUNISHMENT 321\nsilence with a serious frowning face to the vague and empty\nchatter of Porfiry Petrovitch. \"Does he really want to distract\nmy attention with his silly babble?\"\n\"I can't offer you coffee here; but why not spend five minutes\nwith a friend,\" Porfiry pattered on, \"and you know all these\nofficial duties . . . please don't mind my running up and down,\nexcuse it, my dear fellow, I am very much afraid of offending\nyou, but exercise is absolutely indispensable for me. I'm always\nsitting and so glad to be moving about for five minutes ... 1\nsuffer from my sedentary life ... I always intend to join a gym-\nnasium; they say that officials of all ranks, even Privy Council-\nlors may be seen skipping gaily there; there you have it, modern\nscience . . . yes, yes. , . . But as for my duties here, inquiries\nand all such formalities . . . you mentioned inquiries yourself\njust now ... I assure you these interrogations are sometime.\"\nmore embarrassing for the interrogator than for the interro'-\ngated. . . . You made the observation yourself just now very\naptly and wittily. (Raskolnikov had made no observation of the\nkind.) One gets into a muddle! A regular muddle! One keeps\nharping on the same note, like a drum! There is to be a reform\nand we shall be called by a different name, at least, he-he-he!\nAnd as for our legal tradition, as you so wittily called it, I\nthoroughly agree with you. Every prisoner on trial, even the\nrudest peasant knows, that they begin by disarming him with\nirrelevant questions (as you so happily put it) and then deal him\na knock-down blow, he-he-he! — your felicitous comparison, he-\nhe! So you really imagined that I meant by government quarters\n. . . he-he! You are an ironical person. Come, I won't go on! Ah,\nby the way, yes! One word leads to another. You spoke of for-\nmality just now, apropos of th^ inquiry, you know. But what's\nthe use of formality? In many cases it's nonsense. Sometimes\none has a friendly chat and gets a good deal more out of it. One\ncan always fall back on formality, allow me to assure you. And\nafter all, what does it amount to? An examining lawyer cannot\nbe bounded by formality at every step. The work of investiga-\ntion is,so to speak, a free art in its own way, he-he-he!\"\nPorfiry Petrovitch took breath a moment. He had simply\nbabbled on uttering empty phrases, letting slip a few enigmatic\nwords and again reverting to incoherence. He was almost run-\nning about the room, moving his fat little legs quicker and","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:30:36.558Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KFCZZ05FKVDDMJJV3YE9Q4WH","peer_label":"crimepunishment00dostiala.pdf","peer_type":"file","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KESYJX0Z6XE0HWTS5N3SDG0B","peer_label":"The Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-20T15:30:37.357Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:30:38.396Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}