Get This Fete Started

Russian literature is not my favorite genre.

I don't like patronymics or the seemingly never ending diminutives that can make it difficult to remember characters.  If you are not an attentive reader (and I am not always an attentive reader) a Russian novel can quickly become frustrating or boring.

Though it has been challenging,  I have almost finished reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Demons.

At this time I would like to thank my high school English teachers. They taught me how to read attentively by keeping a reading journal. I have pushed through the novel at a pace of 25 pages a day with my own notations.

Taking notes is not the only way I remember plot and details. Sometimes I find comparisons in other forms of media like songs. A parody popped into my head concerning a set of chapters that describe an ambitious party thrown by one of the characters.

Now I would like to thank the singer P!nk because without her song Get the Party Started the following would not have been written. 



Von Lembke’s going nuts so you better get this fete started

Von Lembke’s going nuts so you better get this fete started



Get this fete started on a Saturday night

Yulia Mikhailovna’s waitin’ for Pyotr to arrive

Sendin' out the tracts to all of my friends

We'll be looking flashy in our four horse droshky

This fete’s got lots of style here’s Karamazinov reading Merci

Karamazinov can read for miles if you know what I mean



Von Lembke’s going nuts so you better get this fete started

(going nuts, going nuts)

Von Lembke’s going nuts so you better get this fete started



Listening to Stepan talk I fled into the street

Racing through the countryside, Liza’s leaving the scene

The servants are weeping, her Mother’s aghast

This is disconcerting you'll wonder why it happened so fast

But she certainly couldn’t have gotten far

Liza didn’t even stop to say au revoir



Von Lembke’s going nuts so you better get this fete started

(going nuts so you better)

Von Lembke’s going nuts so you better get this fete started

(Get this fete started)



They’re dancing a quadrille as I enter the ballroom

Everybody is leaving, Yulia Mikhailovna is gonna fume

After Zareyche caught on fire she admitted defeat
Everybody is glancing and they're glancing at me

I'll be your narrator you can call anytime

I'll provide introspection to this story line

repeat chorus until you are delirious and begin to see the merits of nihilism