The Underground Man

Found him extremely relatable, and an accurate depiction of wizardy and autism after browsing /r9k/ for 3 years.

>Why is it that, "it may very well be necessary," for such a man to exist in society?
Someone has to be on the bottom for others to be on top.

>>9854946
It may very well be necessary for the very fact that for every Napoleon there are dozens of people (if not hundreds, if not thousands) that believe themselves above morality, as driving instruments of progress through amoral actions.

>>9854946
The Underground Man is the logical conclusion of social isolation and misanthropy. We all know that these feelings exist because we all feel them, Dostoyevsky simply made like William H. Gass, America's foremost prose stylist, and turned up the volume.

>>9855161
This comment seems to apply more to Raskolnikov than the Underground Man