Really, Raskolnikov wouldn’t be surprised if some of the people here are crazy. Sometimes he wonders if even he has gone mad. Still, the visions he’d seen hadn’t felt like those of a madman. And the other man had also seen something, even if it had been something else.
Even if it had been a battlefield.
Raskolnikov has never seen war. He has seen starving women and children, has watched people die, but has never seen true war. The Crimean War — that humiliation for the Russian people! — had never reached far enough into his country to truly affect him, and none of the other rebellions and revolutions that Russian had fought were anything close to successful. Even the uprising in the Kingdom of Poland, which had lasted for something like a year, hadn’t touched Petersburg.
The visions he’d seen had been disturbing in their own ways, of course, but to see a battlefield? Raskolnikov can’t even imagine such a thing.
“I can’t imagine how your battlefield could be connected to the telephone,” he says morosely. “Unless the emergency I spoke of was a war. Have there been any wars fought recently? Since the invention of the telephone?”
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Even if it had been a battlefield.
Raskolnikov has never seen war. He has seen starving women and children, has watched people die, but has never seen true war. The Crimean War — that humiliation for the Russian people! — had never reached far enough into his country to truly affect him, and none of the other rebellions and revolutions that Russian had fought were anything close to successful. Even the uprising in the Kingdom of Poland, which had lasted for something like a year, hadn’t touched Petersburg.
The visions he’d seen had been disturbing in their own ways, of course, but to see a battlefield? Raskolnikov can’t even imagine such a thing.
“I can’t imagine how your battlefield could be connected to the telephone,” he says morosely. “Unless the emergency I spoke of was a war. Have there been any wars fought recently? Since the invention of the telephone?”