Crime and Punishment :: The (Pi)thy Library :: Christopher Louvet

The (Pi)thy Library

What is this anyway?

Mathematically derived texts based on ten words chosen at random from a single text—currently from Crime and Punishment.

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Crime and Punishment

abridged, after Fyodor Doestoevsky

Raskolnikov! Loathing; Alyona Ivanovna loathing!
Sonechka, weighed. Raving struggle Sonechka—
Raskolnikov Sonechka not weighed, axe, weighed—
Raskolnikov raving, Raskolnikov. Not Alyona Ivanovna struggle
raving? Struggle Alyona Ivanovna
Raskolnikov Raskolnikov? Not
Raskolnikov, raving axe weighed Sonechka
character raving not
not Alyona Ivanovna loathing weighed axe? Loathing
struggle, weighed Raskolnikov;
weighed weighed? Raskolnikov axe. Sonechka: loathing?
Character Sonechka not raving!
Character weighed axe
Alyona Ivanovna; weighed—Alyona Ivanovna Alyona Ivanovna Sonechka weighed
raving Raskolnikov, character, axe
not loathing struggle. Alyona Ivanovna character
struggle. Raving not struggle,
raving character not
weighed weighed, not,
struggle; raving not. Character; Raskolnikov Alyona Ivanovna
not raving! Sonechka:
Raskolnikov Alyona Ivanovna, raving loathing? Loathing axe
character struggle axe weighed?

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