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 title = "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877) by Fyodor Dostoevsky"
 date = 2026-05-02
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+Almost all of the main themes of Dostoevsky's work fit into just twenty pages or so. Page for page, one of my favourite books.
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-Like a foul trichina, <mark>like a pestilential germ bringing contagion to whole countries, I infected that earth, happy and sinless before my arrival.</mark> They learned how to lie, and grew to love lying and perceive its beauty.
+Like a foul trichina\*, <mark>like a pestilential germ bringing contagion to whole countries, I infected that earth, happy and sinless before my arrival.</mark> They learned how to lie, and grew to love lying and perceive its beauty.
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