Dostoyevsky Swimming

“What remains imprinted on my mind is the fervent, compulsive trips Dostoyevsky would make between two hallucinatory erotic zones: back and forth he would rush — from the glittering gambling halls of the casino to the gauzy-dim bedroom of his bride, as though torn between two women. Tsypkin describes their sexual act that in Dostoyevsky’s fevered mind had become an act of swimming.”