V-2nd - Chap 8 / I have really never read this book this closely before

[Michael Bailey]

other stuff about the same bit:

it's a theme and a bridge maybe, Benny swatting flies whose
concupiscence and polyphiloprogenitiveness is similar (the one line I
remember from Brothers K is from a poem one of them brothers wrote:
"something something, for the insect, sensual lust") point being the
flies, if they learn anything at all from it, it's probably something
like those inanimate objects like newspapers don't like me, and here I
am all horny and stuff... or is that too heavy and moralistic?

Brothers K passage, courtesy of Amazon look inside

it's Mitya, telling Alyosha, how humiliated he is and so forth,
quoting a hymn to Ceres one minute and then rambling on for a bit and
then coming out with this bit, which I think is from a different poem:
All things drink with deep elation
Mother Nature's milk of joy
Plant and beast and man and nation
Sweetness of her breast enjoy
To man prostrated in the dust
Joy brings friends and cheering wine;
Gives the insects sensual lust
Angels - happiness divine.

"But that's enough poetry.  The tears are pouring from my eyes, so let
me weep!" sez that Mitya.