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On Reading Crime and Punishment
Old Moby Dick is a right good whale
He really knows how to end a tale
With his tail!
When tedious men give the reader fits
Moby splashes, and dashes ‘em to bits.
But in Saint Petersburg – or Petrograd –
Rodian keeps talking, and that’s too bad,
All about his woes, and his sinful fall;
Alas! There is no whale to end it all.
(Postscript – I finally finished C & P. As always with Dostoyevsky, the journey ended in hope.)
