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Episode 164: Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” on Perfection (Part One)

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The Totsky's Self-Destructiveness

Her self-destructiveness is a product of the Totsky became her ward or she became his ward when she was like seven years old. She clearly feels like she's wicked but that wickedness somehow as you point out has been thrust upon her, right? And it's a little bit different than the kind of wickedness that Corey just described in the general story where it's, at least in the story, is a kind of purely wanton wickedness. I'm not sure I think of her as wicked exactly. She's impulsive but she does a lot of the bean things that she calls out. Yes. Gany Redomsky guy tries to get some trouble for being in

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