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Podkhodtsev
A clerk who takes eagerly to the office's forced reading of \emph{The Wandering Jew}, absorbing enough of its anticlerical spirit to start calling the bookkeeper Budylda a "Jesuit."
Reading notes
- Reading (A Tale of an Old Sparrow) §27 Podkhodtsev
A clerk conscripted into Semipalatov's reading campaign; unlike Merdyaev he takes it up eagerly, absorbing enough of Eugène Sue's anticlerical novel to start calling Budylda a "Jesuit."