TMoP, Chap 7

[Mark Kohut]

Bekah writes:

  What has brought this sudden lift of spirits about?  (Grief  
> is a mysterious process, there are moments or days of joy  
> interspersed with the heavy gloom.)

Starting to fall for Anna? Love over death? 

D. violates Matronya's innocence by telling her of evil brutally...an evil act..?!
A verbal, "imaginative" equivalent of what Stavrogin does ot the young woman in "The Demons"???

Pavel, good man story. D., much less so here. Coetzee indicates that young Matronya is being violated physically, metaphorically.....

When D. talks of God's silence: witty AND very like Ivan's words in Brothers K...down to silence about even the death of one child..(the touchstone of the problem of evil theologically, in Dostoevsky's mind)