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- MB CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
if ever I regretted the death of my father and mother, it is now,
and I sometimes think if my parents were living what a protest
I would have aimed at them! I would have done something
on purpose ... I would have shown them! I would have aston-
ished them! I am really sorry there is no one!"
"To surprise! He-he! Well, be that as you will," Pyotr Petro-
vitch interrupted, "but tell me this: do you know the dead
man's daughter, the delicate-looking little thing? It's true what
they say about her, isn't it?"
"What of it? I think, that is, it is my own personal convic-
tion, that this is the normal condition of women. Why not?
I mean, distinguons. In our present society, it is not altogether
normal, because it is compulsory, but in the future society, it
will be perfectly normal, because it will be voluntary. Even as
it is, she was quite right: she was suffering and that was her asset,
so to speak, her capital which she had a perfect right to dispose
of. Of course, in the future society, there will be no need of
assets, but her part will have another significance, rational and
in harmony with her environment. As to Sofya Semyonovna
personally, I regard her action as a vigorous protest against the
organisation of society, and I respect her deeply for it; I rejoice
indeed when I look at her!"
"I was told that you got her turned out of these lodgings."
Lebeziatnikov was enraged.
"That's another slander," he yelled. "It was not so at all!
That was all Katerina Ivanovna's invention, for she did not
understand! And I never made love to Sofya Semyonovna! I was
simply developing her, entirely disinterestedly, trying to rouse
her to protest. . . . All I wanted was her protest and Sofya
Semyonovna could not have remained here anyway!"
"Have you asked her to join your community?"
"You keep on laughing and very inappropriately, allow me
to tell you. You don't understand! There is no such role in a
community. The community is established that there should be
no such roles. In a community, such a role is essentially trans-
formed and what is stupid here is sensible there, what, under
present conditions, is unnatural becomes perfectly natural in the
community. It all de|>ends on the environment. It's all the en-
vironment and man himself is nothing. And I am on good terms
with Sofya Semyonovna to this day, which is a proof that she
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