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"I propose we put it to the vote how far Shigalov's despair affects the common cause, and at the same time whether it's worth while listening to him or not," an officer suggested gaily. "That's not right." The lame teacher put in his spoke at last. As a rule he spoke with a rather mocking smile, so that it was difficult to make out whether he was in earnest or joking. "That's not right, gentlemen.
A fine idea, no doubt, but quite as impracticable as Shigalov's theories, which you referred to just now so contemptuously." "Well, but I haven't come here for discussion." Verhovensky let drop this significant phrase, and, as though quite unaware of his blunder, drew the candle nearer to him that he might see better.
"So the whole point lies in Shigalov's despair," Lyamshin commented, "and the essential question is whether he must despair or not?" "Shigalov's being on the brink of despair is a personal question," declared the schoolboy.
"You see, gentlemen," he raised his eyes a trifle "to my mind all these books, Fourier, Cabet, all this talk about the right to work, and Shigalov's theories are all like novels of which one can write a hundred thousand an aesthetic entertainment. I can understand that in this little town you are bored, so you rush to ink and paper."
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