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sry for the very late reply but woow, thank u so much uwu

Hey lucius. Thanks, and I wish you the same! I am sorry for being this late with my response, I've been so caught up with things over the past few months - there's obviously been my job, but I've managed to fill up the rest of my schedule with hobbies and other fun stuff, I travelled a bit as well. How have you fared since we last spoke?

lucchi! you're too kind, naguguilty tuloy ako dahil may utang pa ako sa'yo na hindi ko na-fulfill from last time. andami ko na utang haha. this past semester has been (for the most part) eventful. i am in the process of publishing my thesis come february, can't wait to show it to you soon!

likewise, i hope you have a great year ahead! you're the only person here i ever bother coming back for, so stay ka lang d'yan : )) can't believe it's almost 4 years since we've first talked. good luck sa final semester, sabay pa tayong gradwaiting. cheers!

belated merry christmas and happy new year, lucchi!

saw that you're active again, so hope you don't mind me sending a new year's greeting your way. here's for another year!

Happy New Year :) I hope the last year has been kind to you and more good things will come your way during this one.

hey man, i really like your profile layout. looks so nice and clean!

Sorry for the late reply. It has been... eventful on my end. A major incident in my city has shaken up the state and entire country and has become a bit of an international affair. I won't mention the gnarly details (just look up 'R.G. Kar case'). As a result, there has been a series of large-scale peaceful protests, spearheaded by medicos, and, due to being effectively a fascist state in all but name, the government has mobilised police forces to deal with the issue. It's just... unbelievable. I participate whenever I can and share stuff on my social media, I don't know what difference it makes. Other than that, life goes on ig.

yo, lucci! just checking in to tell you that I've finished reading the portion we've agreed upon. although, next next week pa ulit ako magiging active here due to midterms and other obligations. 'yun lang hahaha

lmaooo ang haba ng chat natin, buti nalang online class lang ako bukas. sige tapusin mo na 'yan para walang distraction sa pagbabasa haha, sabayan pa kita. timpla muna ako ng kape

I'm more of a Myshkin person (The Idiot), which is why I naturally gravitate towards Razumikhin & Sonya's characters too. they're the antidote to Raskolnikov's nihilism, and, in the case of Myshkin, a symbol of perfect purity and innocence. a rather obvious way of communicating Dostoevsky's Christian ideal – he was a devout believer himself. the entirety of his work was his own prognosis of contemporary Russia that he believed was increasingly turning away from Christian spirituality in favor of post-Enlightenment (European) morality.

they're polar opposites, but I suppose one could find value in Raskolnikov as the more grounded character, in that he better represents the condition of being human, all too human. after all it's easy to fall prey to temptations and cynicism when you feel alienated in a society where cruelty and hypocrisy is the norm and where social structures reward immorality. that, and he was a broke college student too (literally me)

edit: some additional thoughts, forgive my yapping hahaha

well unlike Napoleon he hasn't accomplished remotely anything of significance. he thinks he's a great man, but as you would describe, has the constitution of a frail medieval orphan hahaha. motherfucker got hubris for days.

yeah, even by the end he was still deflecting moral responsibility for the murders he committed. it was the banality of evil in raskolnikov's mind that he is guilty of and justified his actions, way before he actually committed them.

ahh oo nga pala nag a-annotate ka ano, my patience never allowed me to develop that habit kasi.


masubukan nga haha; it reminds me of those pool players bago sumargo. totally unrelated, but still.


I remember this, it's structured akin to a church confession or sacrament of penance. but raskolnikov is guilty of being a sinner too, so this evoked conflicting feelings of disgust and sympathy from him - much like the rest of the novel's theme of duality. it's these things where dostoevsky distinguishes himself as a writer