Problem. Memento.
| To find the mean proportional. | Act 1. Early Childhood, the old man and woman. |
| " 2. The family, Sushar, the running away and Kulikov— | |
| " 3. Chermak—exams. | |
| " 4. The Country and Katya, debauchery with Albert. |
| 20 Childhood. | |
| 20 Monastery. | |
| 40 Before deportation. | |
| 20 Woman and Satan. | |
| 40 Heroic Acts. |
—Repulsion for people from the very first consciousness as a child (through the passion of a proud and domineering nature). Out of contempt:
—“I will carry it with a high hand, shan’t degrade myself with the flattery and dexterity of a Brin.”
—And this too is from repulsion for people and from contempt for them from the earliest years of childhood—
—“Oh, if I only took upon myself the rôle of a flatterer like Brin,—what could I not achieve!”
—And begins at times to reason: “Shall I not become a flatterer? (he consults the lame girl about it). This too is a power of the spirit—to endure oneself as a flatterer. But no, I do not want it, it is foul—besides I shall have an instrument—money, so that they, willy-nilly, whether they choose or not, will all come to me and bow to me.”
| With Kulikov he displays his spiritual power. | |
| Kulikov does not kill him; but the murderer, the runaway soldier, they killed together. |
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