Father Ted, on Crime and Punishment
Polly: Do you like Dostoevsky?
Ted smiles blankly. Polly smiles and holds up 'Crime and Punishment'.
Ted: Oh! Oh, him? Oh, yes, that's one of my favourites, all right. I must have read that book...ten times.
Polly: I see you're reading it again. There's a bookmark here on page seven.
Ted smiles and nods.
Polly: Did you feel his sense of commitment wane towards the end?
Ted: Well, yes.
Polly: When did you feel that begin to happen?
Ted: Towards the end.
Pause.
Ted: Around the time he stopped writing about crime and went on to the punishment bit. It began to drag a bit there for me.
Ted smiles blankly. Polly smiles and holds up 'Crime and Punishment'.
Ted: Oh! Oh, him? Oh, yes, that's one of my favourites, all right. I must have read that book...ten times.
Polly: I see you're reading it again. There's a bookmark here on page seven.
Ted smiles and nods.
Polly: Did you feel his sense of commitment wane towards the end?
Ted: Well, yes.
Polly: When did you feel that begin to happen?
Ted: Towards the end.
Pause.
Ted: Around the time he stopped writing about crime and went on to the punishment bit. It began to drag a bit there for me.