>Oh, you're really into reading?
>You love the Russians?
>You've only read Dostoevsky
>The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the Underground
>You've never read Pushkin, Tolstoy or Lermontov?
>Don't have time?
>But you know Dostoevsky's the best, intuitively?
>You love how internal his characters get?
>He's just really really good?
I see I see

Novella-non again. BALLOONED my piece up to 35k words so far. Only 15k to go before anyone considers picking it up.