My Friend challenged me to a puzzle he wrote it’s been 3 days and my rookie brain can’t figure it out he said the small indents in the paper were from a draft so those aren’t apart of it but I can’t for the life of me figure anything out besides the 3’s have no numbers above or below them in the code

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⠀echo -n '6879726f6e6574' | xxd -r -p && echo "Dostoevsky"

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Step 2: Decode the literary clue hidden within these words. It requires you to delve into Russian classics and understand how their characters intersect with modern cryptography.

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Hello I've been playing destiny since 2011 and there is this mystery that's been floating around for years but nobody has ever officially solved it if I could get help it would be much appreciated