I found myself strangely numb reading about this murder. Life-Death - are they not both motions in the dialectic? Being contains all. All contains Being. So this woman and her murderer were just directions in the ongoing revolution of Being.

Before I started reading Hegel, murder seemed a moral outrage, death a painful wound. But now I question why other's cling to pre-Spinoza thinking instead of embracing today. Monaism - all is one. A river of energies longing to resolve itself into revolution. Each day moving closer to Being finally knowing it's own eyelash.

Dang, Anne, you totally had me until that last misplaced apostrophe.

Isn't it 'Raskolnikov'? Or do philosophers transliterate Russian differently from the rest of us?

I find the "echo" somewhat weak. The only connection is young guy kills old lady. For an true echo of "Raskolikov" I expect more, frankly.