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Verrerogo 1 point ago +1 / -0

Someone who just loves doing wrong and is hurried about it. They have high energy feet when doing wrong, and when going to do it.

I just saw a video of a bastard shove someone onto the tracks in a subway. Having done that, with a vigorous push, he did a bouncy gleeful happy dance regaining his balance. That is one way to imagine what this line means.

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Neonlightdistrict 1 point ago +1 / -0

I dont think you know what you're talking about. You're just guessing. Dont you see what I'm saying? If there's 20 different versions, how do you know that you're right?

Someone who is hurried about doing wrong?

Isn't doing wrong bad enough? Why does it matter that they hurry.

You barely gave it any thought, but you act like you know what it means.

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Verrerogo 1 point ago +1 / -0

Sure doing wrong is wrong. But using your guts, grit, intelligence, youthful energy and loving it, make it more wrong. Even in American law, intent matters. If you left the iron on by mistake and the building burned down, it matters that it was an accident. That's very different from setting the fire and enjoying it from across the street, and the penalty will be different, even though the fire is the same fire.

Anybody can do wrong slowly and languidly and hardly noticing. That can be excused much more than someone who invests high energy into doing wrong.

No?

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Neonlightdistrict 1 point ago +1 / -0

No. You're working backwards from the answer you gave.

I think the translation is wrong, or something. Considering that particular line just doesn't make a lot of sense.