Part 1, Chapter 1
Opening descriptions of the 'unbearable stench from the pot-houses' and dust and heat that produce Raskolnikov's nervous condition.
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Petersburg's heat, stench, yellow wallpaper, and crowded slums form a feverish urban consciousness that mirrors and produces Raskolnikov's illness.
Part 2, Chapter 6
Raskolnikov wanders the city after the murder, the Petersburg panorama on the bridge—'a strange and cold spirit blew on him from this magnificent panorama.'
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