D man chugging an old-timey vial of Dr. Zorba's Morphium Liniment, taking huge rips on the pipe, getting ready to write another Madame K passage

.. just learned about The Affair of the Sausages, is Rakitin offering Alyosha some pocket sausage a deep cut from the Swiss reformation? Can Dostoevsky write two pages without hating on some heresy? (no)

Ivan predicting exactly how Rakitin's going to sell out, running not-too-edgy socialist magazine, investing his money (evil!), the neighborhood he'll build his house
Brutal roast, wonder who it was meant as a parody of

Seriously, how many enemies did Dostoevsky make running that lit journal
There's a thinly veiled jab at somebody every other page

Plus, everybody in Brothers K complaining about "realism" .. from Dmitri the deranged party animal to Kolya the insufferable tween
Is Dostoevsky joking? Is he screwing with critics who complain his novels are unrealistic, just dressed-up allegories? Or the reverse?