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The pursuit of unhappiness

by Frank Bures, The Rotarian — May 2011 Last year, when the new Dostoevsky subway station opened in Moscow, there was worried speculation that the grim scenes from Dostoevsky’s novels, artistically depicted on the gray marble walls (Crime and Punishment’s Raskolnikov about to murder the old woman with an axe, the troubled protagonist of Demons holding a gun to his head), were so depressing that people, overwhelmed by the bleakness, would start throwing…