{"id":"01KFE0JFYGNNH34RTFVJF5D4VR","cid":"bafkreiczqoypobzm6w23vilhjtokqngqnuanm2ittows4t7vbvfq7lehqe","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreihaxfuyk3rgypg2kpw7pk4gy5mhyk3xpy62nibmhvfk4zn35c2i54","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0331.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923151896-r38olccoend","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0331.jpg","page_number":331,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":221468,"text":"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 323\nevidence against him. And how? By giving him, so to speak,\na definite position, I shall put him out of suspense and set his\nmind at rest, so that he will retreat into his shell. They say that\nat Sevastopol, soon after Alma, the clever people were in a ter-\nrible fright that the enemy would attack openly and take Sevas-\ntopol at once. But when they saw that the enemy preferred a\nregular siege, they were delighted, I am told and reassured, for\nthe thing would drag on for two months at least. You're laugh-\ning, you don't believe me again? Of course, you're right, too.\nYou're right, you're right. These are all special cases, I admit.\nBut you must observe this, my dear Rodion Romanovitch, the\ngeneral case, the case for which all legal forms and rules are\nintended, for which they are calculated and laid down in books,\ndoes not exist at all, for the reason that every case, every crime\nfor instance, so soon as it actually occurs, at once becomes a\nthoroughly special case and sometimes a case unlike any that's\ngone before. Very comic cases of that sort sometimes occur.\nIf I leave one man quite alone, if I don't touch him and don't\nworry him, but let him know or at least suspect every moment\nthat I know all about it and am watching him day and night,\nand if he is in continual suspicion and terror, he'll be bound\nto lose his head. He'll come of himself, or maybe <do something\nwhich will make it as plain as twice two are four — it's delight-\nful. It may be so with a simple peasant, \"but with one of our\nsort, an intelligent man cultivated on a certain side, it's a dead\ncertainty. For, my dear fellow, it's a very important matter toknow on what side a man is cultivated. And then there are\nnerves, there are nerves, you have overlooked them! Why, they\nare all sick, nervous and irritable! . . . And then how they all\nsufiFer from spleen! That I assure you is a regular gold mine for\nus. And it's no anxiety to me, his running about the town free!\nLet him, let him walk about for a bit! I know well enough that\nI've caught him and that he won't escape me. Where could he\nescape to, he-he? Abroad, perhaps? A Pole will escape abroad,\nbut not here, especially as I am watching and have taken\nmeasures. Will he escape into the depths of the country perhaps?\nBut you know, peasants live there, real rude Russian peasants. A\nmodern cultivated man would prefer prison to living with such\nstrangers as our peasants. He-he! But that's all nonsense, and on\nthe surface. It's not merely that he has nowhere to run to, he is","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:32:31.896Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:32:32.375Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:32:33.410Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}