Dostoevsky is humourless?! What about Notes from Underground? Or the
scene in The Idiot where Prince Myshkin is told to behave himself as a
posh gathering and breaks an expensive vase from sheer nervousness?
Etc. He's painfully funny when he chooses to be.
I wouldn't mind being "obscure" like Fyodor, either...
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