While drunk on rum, this character writes a quatrain that ends “Anything can happen in this life / but thou, do not forget me!” This character coos “Give me a kiss, sweetie!” to a “Faublas” whose papers he earlier stole from a clerk’s office. This character “[destroys] all the triumph and glory” and makes it impossible for a man to catch a cab in his (10[1])nightmares. A man claims he is “putting my own head into [this character’s] thievish noose” after a debate with the drunken servant Petrushka over whom to call “master.” The protagonist first sees this character near a canal after being escorted out of Klara’s birthday party. This title character taunts a man as he is loaded into a German doctor’s carriage bound for an asylum at the end of an 1846 novella often published together with The Gambler. For 10 points, Golyadkin has a mental breakdown after seeing what title Dostoyevsky character with a similar appearance? ■END■