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Thank you for the informative responses. Interesting that both drinking and cursing are appropriate for the underground man.

Dostoevsky is the reason that I'm trying to learn Russian. I'd like to...

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In Chapter xi of Part I of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, the UM claims that he is "lying like a cobbler." (Pevear & Volokhonsky's translation of я вру как сапожник).

My question:...