And
therefore if, having drunk a glass of wine too much, I still,
notwithstanding my convictions, go to the prostitutes, I am
committing a triple vileness: before the unfortunate, foolish
woman, whom I subject to the most degrading form of slavery for my
filthy rouble; before humanity, because, hiring a public woman for
an hour or two for my abominable lust, I through this justify and
uphold prostitution; and finally, this is a vileness before one's
own conscience and mind. And before logic."
"Phew-ew!" Lichonin let out a long-drawn whistle and chanted in a
thin, dismal voice, nodding in time with his head hanging down to
one side: "The philosopher is off on our usual stuff: 'A rope--is
a common cord.'"
"Of course, there's nothing easier than to play the tom-fool,"
responded Yarchenko. "But in my opinion there is not in the
sorrowful life of Russia a more mournful phenomenon than this
lackadaisicalness and vitiation of thought. To-day we will say to
ourselves: Eh! It's all the same, whether I go to a brothel or
whether I do not go, from this one time things will get neither
worse nor better.
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