It's true what they say about NYC being a terrifying place. The man next to me on the subway was reading The Brothers Karamazov & annotating it with a perfectly sharp pencil. - ThreadSky

loisbeckett.bsky.social • 79 days ago

It's true what they say about NYC being a terrifying place.

The man next to me on the subway was reading The Brothers Karamazov & annotating it with a perfectly sharp pencil.

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timlemke.bsky.social•79 days ago

Even more terrifying: it was not the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation! Freak.

kerrystories.bsky.social•79 days ago

He’s probably a student. NY is not a terrifying place. Don’t judge.

eden57.bsky.social•79 days ago

How can I love this post a thousand times?!

davidwolfson.bsky.social•78 days ago

Sometimes you see people annotating opera scores, too. It's wild out here, folks.

sampirtle.bsky.social•78 days ago

Horrors 😫

moominpapa.bsky.social•79 days ago

The terror! I hope you put him in a rhetorical chokehold.

(Too soon?)

debholleync.bsky.social•79 days ago

The horror!

jay-lynn-farrow.bsky.social•79 days ago

Such actions are, after all, permitted.

shudderinggoat.bsky.social•79 days ago

Aughhh! Run away!

bluemorphoproject.bsky.social•79 days ago

Gasp🦋

typicaliconoclast.bsky.social•79 days ago

I imagine Ivan Karamazov happy. As much as Dovstoyeski wants us to hate ourselves and embrace nihilism, I will always love Ivan for his resistance to that ethos.

bencarp.bsky.social•79 days ago

People aren’t taking this seriously enough—the OP was one bad jolt away from a graphite puncture

dauntless6.bsky.social•78 days ago

Oooof. I had to read that in high school. I literally needed a notebook to keep track of the characters.

katherinepemberton.bsky.social•79 days ago

I can’t make a judgement about this until I know whether he was reading a translation or the original Russian.,

loisbeckett.bsky.social•79 days ago

just ye olde pevear & volokhonsky

merlino37.bsky.social•79 days ago

When you see someone reading Camus' "The Rebel" you'll know that the 1960's are back.

arodphoto.bsky.social•79 days ago

See something, say something

tdkerst.bsky.social•79 days ago

😂

cryptomav.bsky.social•78 days ago

the sharp pencil painted a very vivid scene

bikepathrickross.bsky.social•79 days ago

The Grand Inquisitor Inquisitor.

austintesla.bsky.social•79 days ago

Hopefully subway performance art

philb53.bsky.social•79 days ago

We had accordion music on my ride.

xector.bsky.social•79 days ago

That bastard.

frankwp.bsky.social•79 days ago

What if he was reading Crime and Punishment and seemed malnourished? That would change your tune.

vetopower.bsky.social•79 days ago

He probbably a Putin agent if hes reading Russkie lit

jjl62.bsky.social•79 days ago

Daniel Perry will help you.

sbowman74.bsky.social•79 days ago

😮 The humanity!

alfaeco.bsky.social•79 days ago

😱

lordp666.bsky.social•79 days ago

One of the funniest things I have ever read was a post on Reddit where some poor Mexican was compared to John Wick, and they called him:

Juan Wick, he kills with a fooking Churro.

I don't know why your post brought it to mind, but it did.

bohemianeden.bsky.social•79 days ago

Sounds like NYC. Bunch on animals.

blueboy-777.bsky.social•79 days ago

Man, I'm in the closing argument in court part and it's an uphill climb...

jwolfe73.bsky.social•79 days ago

What's even more terrifying is if he wants to discuss it with you. I will not, under any circumstances, discuss Dostoevsky on the subway. Therein lies ruin.

cto1usn.bsky.social•78 days ago

While I'm a World Traveler, I Only got to do a Short Overnight in NYC. I think My Oldest Granddaughters have spent More time there than I did.

streetberries.bsky.social•79 days ago

Where do you even get a sharp pencil?

fembryo.bsky.social•78 days ago

You think that’s scary, just last week that same man sat down across from another man reading the same book, annotating it with the same sharp pencil, and—worst of all—they looked exactly the same.

justsayingbluesky.bsky.social•79 days ago

Is there anything more attractive than that?

reybri.bsky.social•79 days ago

Ha ha ha! Great one!

cece250.bsky.social•79 days ago

Frightening!

hypergraphic.bsky.social•79 days ago

Good read by Fyodor Dostoevsky!

dogdadcoder.bsky.social•79 days ago

The horror... The horror... The horror

usmarks.bsky.social•79 days ago

You are hilarious!

viva-lavida.bsky.social•79 days ago

Not to sway anyone's beliefs, but I say: pencil notes on a book are acceptable. What if he has some sort of foreign literature test? I want him to pass!