—His estrangement from people was furthered by the fact that they all looked upon him as an eccentric and laughed or feared him.
—A broken head (pantalons en haut), he is ill.
Then Chermak left him alone. (Mango.)
—By the process of thinking he arrived at the conclusion, for instance, that it is not necessary to act dishonestly, because acting honestly he would make money even better, since to the rich all privileges for any evil are granted even without that.
—Albert and he steal a star from the crown and escape successfully (he incited), but when Albert began to blaspheme, he began beating him. And then he declared himself before the court as an atheist.
—Idea: that he could gain a still greater power by flattery, like Von Brin.
But no—he thinks—I want to reach the same end without flattery.
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I myself am God, and he makes Katya worship him. (God knows what he does with her. “I shall love you then when you can do everything.”)
—In the vagaries of his imagination he has endless dreams, up to the overthrow of God and putting himself in the place of God. (Kulikov had a strong influence.)