{"id":"01KFE0EZCJSEX6ZS465J2KNY4P","cid":"bafkreiee2gfwsiibbdadrbunzl7ow4czeeq2q5g3fmmbrhojuwx2u46hpa","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreiefq7q2yika463vrrg2le3eepzc5ft5ujvjo5zcwauo2duvjj7bqa","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0358.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923036568-kfq8rn44gvc","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0358.jpg","page_number":358,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":211601,"text":"350 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT\nthat is, that it's an insult to a woman for a man to kiss her hand,\nbecause it's a sign of inequality. We had a debate about it and\nI described it to her. She listened attentively to an account of\nthe workmen's associations in France, too. Now I am explaining\nthe question of coming into the room in the future society.\"\n\"And what's that, pray?\"\n\"We had a debate lately on the question: Has a member of the\ncommunity the right to enter another member's room, whether\nman or woman at any time . . . and we decided that he has!\"\n\"It might be at an inconvenient moment, he-he!\"\nLebeziatnikov was really angry.\n\"You are always thinking of something unpleasant,\" he cried\nwith aversion. \"Tfoo! How vexed I am that when I was ex-\npounding our system, I referred prematurely to the question of\npersonal privacy! It's always a stumbling-block to people like\nyou, they turn it into ridicule before they imderstand it. And\nhow proud they are of it, too! Tfoo! I've often maintained that\nthat question should not be approached by a novice till he has\na firm faith in the system. And tell me, please, what do you find\nso shameful even in cesspools? I should be the first to be ready\nto clean out any cesspool you like. And it's not a question of\nself-sacrifice, it's simply work, honourable, useful work which\nis as good as any other and much better than the work of a\nRaphael and a Pushkin, because it is more useful.\"\n\"And more honourable, more honourable, he-he-he!\"\n\"What do you mean by 'more honourable'? I don't understand\nsuch expressions to describe human activity. 'More honourable,'\n'nobler' — all those are old-fashioned prejudices which I reject.\nEverything which is of use to mankind is honourable. I only\nimderstand one word: useful! You can snigger as much as you\nlike, but that's so!\"\nPyotr Petrovitch laughed heartily. He had finished counting\nthe money and was putting it away. But some of the notes he\nleft on the table. The \"cesspool question\" had already been a\nsubject of dispute between them. What was absurd was that it\nmade Lebeziatnikov really angry, while it amused Luzhin and at\nthat moment he particularly wanted to anger his young friend.\n\"It's your ill-luck yesterday that makes you so ill-humoured\nand annoying,\" blurted out Lebeziatnikov, who in spite of his\n■\"independence\" and his \"protests\" did not venture to oppose","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:30:36.568Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:30:37.310Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:30:38.336Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}