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—Some half-ass critic, Anselm said, —a three time psychoanaloser. He spat into the gutter.
—With his fake conversion to the Church. You remember that little tiny girl that used to be around? she came about up to his waist. He used to take her home and dress her in little girl’s clothes and rape her.
—Too much Dostoevski, Max said. NOTE: in a chapter of The Possessed long suppressed, Stavrogin describes a sexual encounter with a twelve-year-old girl who, feeling afterward that she has "killed God" as a result, hangs herself. Similarly, the profligate Svidrigaylov in Crime and Punishment admits to having sexually abused young girls, one of whom committed suicide afterward. Toward the end of the novel he dreams of rescuing a shivering, crying, five-year-old girl, undressing her, and allowing her to take his bed to recover. He soon sees in her countenance, however, "the face of a courtesan, the brazen face of a mercenary French harlot." Shortly after waking from this nightmare, Svidrigaylov shoots himself.
