Along a slanting ray, like this
I slipped out of
paralysis. (7.3)
In his stream of consciousness Pralinski (the protagonist in Dostoevski's
A Nasty Anecdote) recalls "people of paralysis and
stagnation:"
Степан Никифорович умрёт — не поймёт. Ведь
сказал же он: не выдержим. Да, но это вы, люди старые, люди паралича и косности,
а я выдер-жу!
Stepan Nikiforovich would die
before he understood it. Didn't he say: we won't hold out.
Yes, but that's you old people, people of
paralysis and stagnation, but I will hold
out!
At the beginning of
Dostoevski's Humiliated and Insulted its hero and narrator
exclaims:
Удивительно, что может сделать один луч солнца с
душой человека!
It is wonderful what one ray of sunshine can
do with the soul of man! (Part One, chapter one)
After Pushkin's death Prince Odoevski called the
poet solntse russkoy poezii ("the sun of Russian poetry"). Dostoevski
is the author of the famous Pushkinskaya rech' (the speech at the
unveiling of the Pushkin monument in Moscow in June, 1880). During his visit to
Leningrad Vadim meets Dora (a friend of Vadim's daughter Bel) near the
monument of Pushkin (5.2). A ray of Pushkin's sunshine penetrates
LATH!
Alexey Sklyarenko