{"id":"01KFE0EZAWDVCY7XESN3ANPKA8","cid":"bafkreiggyvdzrpp5b4nmsa24cbndjkhz5dqims3oli3ger5m2vpcpvwkou","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreihjdr6gzpsjcndfaqvzhlcdhnulc6dr6w6t2e4dqirhk5hexdo3zu","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0333.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923036560-g1oc6gwtvmi","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0333.jpg","page_number":333,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":224369,"text":"k\nCRIME AND PUNISHMENT 325\nmy dear Rodion Romanovitch, you are a man still young, so to\nsay, in your first youth and so you put intellect above every-\nthing, like all young people. Playful wit and abstract arguments\nfascinate you and that's for all the world like the old Austrian\nHof-kriegsrath, as far as I can judge of military matters that is:\non paper they'd beaten Napoleon and taken him prisoner, and\nthere in their study they worked it all out in the cleverest\nfashion, but look you. General Mack surrendered with all his\narmy, he-he-he! I see, I see, Rodion Romanovitch, you are\nlaughing at a civilian like me, taking examples out of military\nhistory! But I can't help it, it's my weakness. I am fond of mili-\ntary science. And I'm ever so fond of reading all military his-\ntories. I've certainly missed my proper career. I ought to have\nbeen in the army, upon my word I ought. I shouldn't have been\na Napoleon, but I might have been a major, he-he-he! Well, I'll\ntell you the whole truth, my dear fellow, about this special case,\nI mean: actual fact and a man's temperament, my dear sir, are\nweighty matters and it's astonishing how they sometimes de-\nceive the sharpest calculation! I— listen to an old man — am\nspeaking seriously, Rodion Romanovitch (as he said this Porfiry\nPetrovitch who was scarcely five and thirty actually seemed to\nhave grown old ; even his voice changed and he seemed to shrink\ntogether) moreover, I'm a candid man . . . am I a candid man or\nnot? What do you say? I fancy I really am: I tell you these\nthings for nothing and don't even expect a reward for it, he-he!\nWell, to proceed, wit in my opinion is a splendid thing, it is, so\nto say, an adornment of nature and a consolation of life, and\nwhat tricks it can play! So that it sometimes is hard for a poor\nexamining lawyer to know where he is, especially when he's\nliable to be carried away by his owq fancy, too, for you know he\nis a man after all. But the poor fellow is saved by the crimi-\nnal's temperament, worse luck for him! But young people car-\nried away by their own wit don't think of that 'when they\noverstep all obstacles' as you wittily and cleverly expressed it\nyesterday. He will lie— that is the man who is a special case, the\nincognito, and he will lie well, in the cleverest fashion; you\nmight think he would triumph and enjoy the fruits of his wit,\nbut at the most interesting, the most flagrant moment he will\nfaint. Of course there may be illness and a stuffy room as well,\nbut anyway! Anyway he's given us the idea! He lied incom-","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:30:36.560Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:30:37.308Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:30:38.578Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}