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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Keri's third post

In the next pages of "Notes from the Underground" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the narrator begins to show readers his true lunacy. The story that the narrator tells us in the beginning of the fifteen pages is a prime example of someone caring too much about an occurrence that is probably irrelevant. The narrator tells a story about his encounter with a police officer where the police officer brushes up against him in passing. For some reason which I cannot understand, the narrator is appalled by this. He seeks vengeance. It was strange to me how an occurrence so trivial and commonplace almost him into an emotional stupor. This encounter is an event that happens multiple times a day to most people. The narrator goes as far as to stalk him by finding out where he normally walks. The narrator plans this whole scheme in his head to get revenge. He buys special clothing and tosses and turns the possibilities over in his head.
All of these passages were honestly crazy. It is clear to me that the narrator has some serious issues.

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