W: LP: LG: FD: C & P

This post will get edited several times as I think about tonight's discussion of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (C&P), so stay tuned...

So far, my observations of the character, Raskolnikov, as he commits the murder are that what we are looking at is the true nature of fallen humanity.

As Philip K. Dick in his novel "The man in the High Tower", has the character, Tagomi, contemplate (and I quote):
There is evil! It's actual, like cement.
I can't believe it. I can't stand it. Evil is not a view...It's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself...We're blind moles. Creeping through the soil, feeling with our snoots. We know nothing. I perceived this...now I don't know where to go. Screech with fear, only. Run away. Pitiful.

And as the translators of C&P write in their forward:

Evil is the final ambiguity. Reason cannot accept it; rationalizing ideologies deny its existence. No one calls it by name, and this silence weighs heavily on the novel, because the world of C&P is saturated with evil, so much so that it becomes palpable. It is the dense element through which Raskolnikov moves without recognition.

Raskolnikov's internal sickness is our sickness. Without Christ...