Well. So long as I'm not a bird, I won't have a chance of facing that particular hypothetical catastrophe.

[ While Dostoevsky loves playing mind games, he also knows Gogol much, much better. No doubt he could easily imagine what might become of a literal or metaphorical bird that caught the man's eye.

A pause, ears twitching in thought. ]

He's one of the people you had worrying, you know.