(A poor jest, but I will not scratch it out. I did not take bribes, you see, so I was bound to find a recompense in that, at least. I was rude and took pleasure in being so. I used to be in the government service, but am no longer. Dostoevsky in 1863, the year before Notes from Underground was published The narration by the Underground Man is laden with ideological allusions and complex conversations regarding the political climate of the period. The Complete Prose Tales of Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin. I have been going on like that for a long time-twenty years. If you liked Notes from the Underground by F M Dostoevsky, here are some books like this. Notes From Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky Dostoevskys most revolutionary novel following life of a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an. The Underground Man, however, claims that conscious men refuse to be reconciled with the laws of nature, science, and mathematics that other men take for granted. But still, if I don’t consult a doctor it is from spite. Of course, I can’t explain who it is precisely that I am mortifying in this case by my spite: I am perfectly well aware that I cannot ‘pay out’ the doctors by not consulting them I know better than anyone that by all this I am only injuring myself and no one else. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism. No, I refuse to consult a doctor from spite. If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, sufficiently so to respect medicine, anyway (I am well-educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am superstitious). I don’t consult a doctor for it, and never have, though I have a respect for medicine and doctors. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me.

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