Delivered on January 30, 2015 at Middlebury Union High School (VT).
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@bhuvi4414 жыл бұрын
I dont think Raskolnikov ever repented genuinely for killing a person. He only repented for committing a deed which he did not have the potential to deal with. What he gives away in the end is his pride and ego. He comes down to the ground and completely accepts that he is just an ordinary person.
@sahilnambisan29424 жыл бұрын
Bhuvanesh N I felt the same way. And I’ve re-read the last few pages in an attempt to find even a slight clue that he truly repents. While serving his time in Siberia, Raskolnikov mentions something along the lines of how he does not feel bad for the old woman. This made me feel uneasy because I felt that the book would have an “unhappy ending”. But the fact that he accepted himself as an ordinary man and let go of his pride (which crushed his soul so much that he was kneeling and sobbing in front of Sonia) was in so many ways, just as impactful; because a. it wasn’t that he was inherently bad that made him commit the crime because he clearly has empathy and goes out of his way to help others and b. in coming to terms with his normalcy, he can set aside his hyper rational thoughts and theories and lead the rest of his life without isolating himself and in doing so, he is less likely to commit further atrocities.
@bhuvi4414 жыл бұрын
@@sahilnambisan2942 True ! I completely agree.
@mr.sotack65863 жыл бұрын
No, he didn’t repent. He felt his theory wasn’t vindicated because he had failed.
@jigoujitoku71933 жыл бұрын
I got the impression that he didn't change his mind on the theory, just that didn't have the right to the commit it. I.e. if somebody else *worthy.. exceptional* commited the act, they would have the moral right to do so. It might be a cliche, but I think at the end what really woke him up and brought him back to reality was the idea he could leave his own rationalisations aside and live according to somebody else's traditions and believes. Live *for* somebody else.
@cheeseandonions95583 жыл бұрын
The point of Raskolnikov's redemption isn't being sorry for the crime. The point of his redemption is that he's a criminal but people are still able to forgive him. And that moves him so much he completely changes his outlook on life. He still belies that his murder was rational and justifiable, but he also knows that's not enough to live his life. Love and acceptance of the society is the real foundation of the human society, not reason.
@giovannidigrazia12092 жыл бұрын
In highschool I remember being a student who couldn’t care less for English class and wouldn’t have any thought of opening a book. It’s only now I’m here wishing I could be in a classroom again like this and take in these extremely interesting notes on a book I now love and revere. Thank you for the recording of the lecture
@hamzadlm6625 Жыл бұрын
I totally and fully relate
@roddydykes7053 Жыл бұрын
In highschool there was an infinite number of far more interesting things happening all around you in every peer group. 90% of that is gone the second your grade is graduated and the rest of it is gone within 5 years
@csabour9 Жыл бұрын
I love when profs record their lecture and put it on KZbin. I learned so much!
@constipatedlecher5 жыл бұрын
These kids are so engaged. I wish I was this alive and awake when I was that young.
@davestites84442 жыл бұрын
When you're a kid their job is to destroy your will to live, and then when you grow up you have to go get it again. School is terrible in the US.
@banishingflat84 Жыл бұрын
This is one of the best KZbin videos on Dostoevsky and ‘Crime and Punishment’ I have ever watched. I’m thankful for having found it.
@dougpiranha32305 жыл бұрын
I just finished reading the novel and I am happy to have found this video, which I'm watching at 02 o'clock after midnight
@272attwell3 ай бұрын
Finished the book early last evening ...woke up in the night thinking about it...(as i have done for the past two weeks) and now at 2.51am, I just finished watching this video!
@OnceUponADreamersDay3 жыл бұрын
I came here because I wanted a deeper analysis of the book and when he read his excerpt, I realized that I had read the book of his translation. Thank you so much.
@XellDincht8 жыл бұрын
holy shit. i am not even that much of an believing Christian but Marmeladov's speech hit me right in the feels. Dostojewski deserves so much respect
@Pontiki19777 жыл бұрын
"Dostojewski deserves so much respect" ??The man is respected from Atheists,Communists,Right wingers..the man is considered one of the greatest minds ever.
@sanderallstar67656 жыл бұрын
Dostojevskij was opposed to socialism, atheism and (quickly summarized) anything progressive. The crowds of people that really praise him are the christians and conservatives.
@kennethalbert46536 жыл бұрын
SanderAllstar : ie. The people who think. Lol
@k.arlanebel67325 жыл бұрын
@@sanderallstar6765 Dostoyevsky was, his entire life, opposed to serfdom and he detested the landed Russian aristocracy. He was opposed to socialism because it worshiped the state and and he was opposed to capitalism because it worshiped Mammon (money). He was looking for a new kind of human community that he hoped would grow out of the Russian Orthodox Church, but he even had doubts about that. He was well-known for not getting along with Orthodox priests and he rarely went to church. In one of his last letters, he told a friend that in his next novel, which would be a continuation of The Brothers Karamazov, his saintly Alyosha would leave the church, become an anarchist, and attempt to assassinate the Tsar. Dostoyevsky a conservative? No. Dostoyevsky a liberal? No. He was looking for something new which he saw as rooted in Christ. We have only scratched the surface in really understanding Dostoyevsky.
@andreslevel75903 жыл бұрын
We must protect teachers as this. One of the best books ever written, I dont think most of this students really read it
@kabirkhanna78454 жыл бұрын
"Pride and Punishment"
@jigoujitoku71933 жыл бұрын
That's good
@jerroldnadler16883 жыл бұрын
How I got through highschool and college without having to read this is a conspiracy of the universe...
@Ken-iu2zp3 жыл бұрын
Right
@danielfreij11326 жыл бұрын
This is his passion. Teach.
@danisirooszadeh73056 жыл бұрын
Oh My God...I Love This Professor And Atmospher Of The Class
@leonorebaulch62515 жыл бұрын
I am a teacher...this professor is very good....a model teacher....thank you for downloading.....
@davestites84442 жыл бұрын
I particularly love the part where he indulges himself in the sheer entertainment of being expected to believe that a student is curious and that it is not a fashion of speech. That's a great professor.
@seangentile55866 жыл бұрын
I definitely like the title : Crime Punishment and Penance. Loved the professor. Anytime I need psychological depth I go back to School. Professors are so refreshing!! Thank you.
@GaarAG1r74 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for uploading this!
@allie93122 жыл бұрын
Repentance was alluded to throughout the entire book. The epilogue seemed very intentional to me
@die_schlechtere_Milch5 ай бұрын
Marmeladov always has been my favourite character, ever since I first read/listened to this novel, and the teacher's fav scene is also probably mine. I wonder what the many mentions of horse carriages stand for in this play though.
@davidcoghlan41044 жыл бұрын
It's only as Im older, more mature and experienced in life that I can appreciate this work. Love the lecture...thank you.
@LawnBunny7772 жыл бұрын
So you are saying that these high school kids don't appreciate it?
@timothymeehan181 Жыл бұрын
I don’t think he’s saying that. It’s simply that we approach and receive/interpret great works of art differently at different stages of our life. Everyone should re-read the great works of literature(Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, etc) every 6-7 years from the age of 18 to the end of their life. They’ll discover new insights every time.. Hell, Read Hamlet, Lear, Macbeth, etc once a month from 18 to 80 and you’ll make a few thousand discoveries in them by 80..🎭🎼🙏
@constipatedlecher5 жыл бұрын
This dude's French and Russian accents are sick!!!
@jaymackgreen92655 жыл бұрын
well he's studied Russian like a mad dog, considering the fact he translates such book. Maybe he's a native speaker bia his parents, anyhow the point remains.
@patrickleary43302 жыл бұрын
Shapeshifting is what they do.
@constipatedlecher2 жыл бұрын
@@patrickleary4330 Uh...?
@patrickleary43302 жыл бұрын
@@constipatedlecher jews
@marz30134 жыл бұрын
No one seemed to understand that the proverb about Jews itself was anti-Semitic and that was the joke :/
@Jostolliii7 жыл бұрын
When characters switch from good and bad isn't it partly because Dostoevsky believes in the idea that most people have a duplicitous nature? A duplicitous nature such as in his second book, The Double?
@iiCookiie7xd4 жыл бұрын
michael kats the legend himself! mans has his book on indigo now reading this book currently on page 85, its kind of a hard read its been day 8. harder than the hunger games thts for sure.
@iiCookiie7xd4 жыл бұрын
so far from wat i c is tht raskinolkov is very poor and is in a alot of pressure so tht y hes all crazy. ye they even say tht is it the crime tht causes the mental illness or the illness tht causes the crime(i think it can b both)? thts y he wants to kill the lady cuz the dude is psycopathic and sociopathic from his time in st.petersburg, he mustve been fine when he was with his mother and sister back in his home town. idk bout the whole "superior man idea" yet cuz im only on page 84 but so far it just seems tht hes like bilpolar cuz first he said he was gonna commit the crime. then he said he wasnt cuz he had a dream about him being a child and seeing a horse get beaten to death and also said even if with an absolute assurance tht the plan was gonna go all well and he will b unscathed from the crime he wouldnt do it; he saw lizaveta who from tht he knew was going to b somewhere where her half sis(ivanova old woman) where he thought would b alone at tht time becuz of her lizaveta going somewhere, and now from knowing this he once again wants to commit this crime. seems like hes bipolar to a fault, hes desperate, and is sick and weak from his conditions.
@fegrey47765 жыл бұрын
Watching a teacher struggle to get participation from a group of students who didn’t read the book but watched the thug notes.
@MarlboroughBlenheim14 жыл бұрын
How can you say that? The interaction is great, just look at the responses to the alternative title
@andrewglaser85602 жыл бұрын
@@MarlboroughBlenheim1 Agreed. It seems that most of the students are genuinely interested in the novel. Obviously, Professor Katz has a much deeper understanding of the novel, but it is clear that the students appreciate his understanding and want to know more. As an English teacher, I would be more than happy with this engagement!
@LawnBunny7772 жыл бұрын
I understood once I realized this was a high school class and not college. It's a lot to ask for high school students to read and comprehend this entire novel. I mean, we only had to read things like Of Mice and Men or Lord of the Flies
@hippiasminor6264 Жыл бұрын
Seems just the opposite to me. The students clearly did read the book, as evidenced by the array of questions they ask. Pretty impressive for high school, in my view.
@carlschjelderup55329 ай бұрын
Did we watch the same lecture?!
@LeoNZ-dv2bh7 жыл бұрын
I was dying for participating whenever this noble and charismatic teacher asked any question. I would have killed an old lady with an ax to be there listening to him face to face as if it were a dream, and I was riding a horse that would then be mutilated into pieces just as my dreams.
@liamfitzpatrick63586 жыл бұрын
wtf
@seangentile55866 жыл бұрын
Leonardo Hernández I like your vibrant mind. Highly creative. Well done.
@lisahughes49995 жыл бұрын
Are you a psycopath or a necrophiliac. I would say the latter going by your flow.
@DeadShjjno5 жыл бұрын
Bahaha good reference!
@tuanjim7994 жыл бұрын
@@lisahughes4999 He was referencing scenes from the book. Read the book.
@hazelharris10905 ай бұрын
I didn't appreciate the humor until i heard it audio. One of my top 3 all time favorite books
@LawnBunny7772 жыл бұрын
Wow, this is a HIGH SCHOOL class? It feels more college level material.
@lilasmurray24255 жыл бұрын
A drunkard's path is a wandering without continuous awareness, if in fact drunk ever becomes aware of where they'd been.
@iiCookiie7xd4 жыл бұрын
"if in fact drunk ever becomes aware of where they'd been"???
@iiCookiie7xd4 жыл бұрын
so is the feeling of being drunk is personified and if drunk was a person he wouldnt want its user to b aware if he knew where they;d been.
@aleksejivanovic65844 жыл бұрын
5:20 what happened with the rest of the book?
@stanleyraz66907 жыл бұрын
I Thought someone would suggest the title (Purgatory) in the beginning .
@aoldfield734 жыл бұрын
This is a very, very lucky High School
@die_schlechtere_Milch5 ай бұрын
Pride, the Fall and Hell. (That pessimistic title would make the Epilogue even more surprising and seemingly added as an afterthought, so that the light will shine all the brighter in the darkness)
@rosie-oz4bd Жыл бұрын
Hell, could anyone explain the significance of when Raskolnikov goes to visit Sonya and forces her to read out the story of Lazarus from The Bible. I’m confused by Sonya and Raskolnikov’s reactions to this.
@mattgraff1907 Жыл бұрын
I think this scene foreshadows the end of the novel when love raises him out of his funk and gives him new life.
@samlazar10538 ай бұрын
It is now widely accepted that the 5 novel's dostoyevsky wrote (not his early work tho) are good candidates for greatest work of literature in worlds history
@Mark-hc8ek Жыл бұрын
I read CP when I was 14, my dad's college paperback. I devoured it. I was going through my 80s slasher film phase and the book grabbed me. I would then start to read other russian novelists and find 19th century Russia identical to 21st century America. There's a passage in Dostoevsky's The Idiot where a woman screams at her son's deadbeat friends, "you think breaking into someone's home and mugging are a form of political protest!" Something like that. Shocking how today's left in the west is mimicking Russia's elites from 150 years ago.
@gbluecheez6 жыл бұрын
This is a high school?
@StagingShakespeare6 жыл бұрын
gbluecheez yes! A local college professor visited our class, so this level of conversation reflects that.
@milominderbinder62093 жыл бұрын
@@StagingShakespeare kudos to your school for bringing a college professor. Is this practice common?
@marz30134 жыл бұрын
Wow he should’ve gotten paid more for this can y’all put some midrolls
@marwaj84973 жыл бұрын
Who is Frederik (full name) ? (The one who commited crimes)...cant get the name ..(Im non-native speaker )
@mizcracun Жыл бұрын
А? Raskolnikov first name - Radion (Радион).
@mattgraff1907 Жыл бұрын
The teacher has interesting insights. I'd like to hear more of them.
@CosmicNihil4 жыл бұрын
Didn't he translate this book?
@StagingShakespeare4 жыл бұрын
Yes, he did!
@afafnj4 жыл бұрын
wow I wish I was in this lecture
@aleksejivanovic65844 жыл бұрын
Sin and guilt
@edwardglen49962 жыл бұрын
"Playing God" would be my title
@destinyforreal97442 жыл бұрын
We call it over the edge
@voltbf43792 жыл бұрын
Rise ye Tarnished
@Kurdistan_Our_land2 жыл бұрын
I am in love with the lecturer and the girl who wears a Tahoe dress.
@ip-sum2 жыл бұрын
Why doesnt noone ever mention the policeman in the tavern pretty much saying it would be fine for the old woman to die?
@willtowin99966 ай бұрын
iam reading his translation i love it
@helloworld85837 жыл бұрын
title: "left to himself, I won't be back soon" "Ушел в себя, вернусь не скоро"
@technicknb3 жыл бұрын
Чушь..
@haltersweb10 ай бұрын
I don’t think any of the girls in the front even read the spark notes.
@timothymeehan181 Жыл бұрын
It’s interesting about this phenomenon that some find the redemptive ending as ringing false. I suspect that those raised as Christians, and especially Catholics, would find it much more plausible than atheists or agnostics, who would be more likely to blanche or bristle at the ending. Not saying one or the other is the “right or correct” response, just more proof that amongst we humans “where you stand depends on where you sit”….🙏🎭
@jennyrokeach5232 жыл бұрын
Excellence and repentance
@die_schlechtere_Milch5 ай бұрын
Why Excellence? Because of Sonja?
@eddybedder2865Ай бұрын
woe is me!
@mykhailohohol87082 жыл бұрын
titles I came up with on the short notice: the Perfect crime?, the Deed, Soul sacrifice.
@mykhailohohol87082 жыл бұрын
by god he chose a weird scene to be his favourite; there are dozens of better scenes..
@allie93122 жыл бұрын
I wish I was in this class lol I want to blurt out my answers so bad
@ginomazzei10762 жыл бұрын
The artist who painted the masterpiece of course was…ITALIAN. 🎩
@JP-gs3jw6 жыл бұрын
Title: Accepting Ordinarity
@seangentile55866 жыл бұрын
Paul S. Good title. Thank you. And I agree.
@PraveenKumar-sr6ne11 ай бұрын
Am very affected by the needless death of Elizabeth, in such a gruesome manner, for simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. More so, by Raskalinikof's attitude. And not once does Raskalinikof care or regret that. Hence, it is my view that Raskalinikov remains an unrepentant and dangerous man even when released after his sentence.
@snigdhabhattacharya16903 ай бұрын
Yep other people around the world definitely don’t read this at 16. Maybe in university. Too depressing and thematically heavy. Just giving you some perspective Victor Krum
@captaintutan9463 Жыл бұрын
Insanity and rehabilitation
@satainter6 жыл бұрын
28:45
@kyriakeka44472 жыл бұрын
Prof Katz giving me Larry David vibes
@seyitnusretozturk34934 жыл бұрын
title; from illusion to disillusion
@sebastianmelmoth9100 Жыл бұрын
Rask keeps seeking to be rejected for who he is -- he thinks his true self is unworthy of familial love are general acceptance. He thrives on needing to be seen as hated, an outcast, a pariaih. When his love interest says she "knows" it means she knows who and what he is by nature and accepts him anyway, not just that she knows he killed the old woman.
@Wagon_Lord2 жыл бұрын
Uhhh were we supposed to *not* like Raskolnikov? Ruh roh!
@user-uz1bh6dk6m7 жыл бұрын
Достоевский- великий!
@winstonsmith23845 жыл бұрын
кто бы мог подумать.
@davestites84442 жыл бұрын
Shout out to my boy Lil Craycray and all my dogs in Satan's backyard at street beefs!!
@lauterunvollkommenheit43449 ай бұрын
I suppose Ivan Denisovich is looking for his garment.
@superwormhalz2607 Жыл бұрын
Wow I loved that scene to I wish I was there as a student they had a great opportunity there that they missed.
@johnmartinm42323 жыл бұрын
People plans crooked things when they gathered in a bar. Am I right?
@mizcracun Жыл бұрын
Именно в Преступлении и наказании - нет.)
@bencesarvari2235 Жыл бұрын
I would give the title "Repentance" or "Split".
@bencesarvari2235 Жыл бұрын
Maybe "The Napoleon of Saint Petersburg".
@mnemonicpie Жыл бұрын
I didn't know Klaus Schwab is such a good lecturer
@die_schlechtere_Milch5 ай бұрын
after repenting in Sibiria, you will own nothing, and you will be happy.
@brianragan1923 жыл бұрын
Come prepared and give a lecture!
@bellringer929Ай бұрын
The creepy sound of chalk on the blackboard might produce another raskolnikov... though i don't approve of it 😬
@caram60612 жыл бұрын
Fantastic to watch shame that the student on the right keeps moving pleating her hair etc it’s just so rude when they have such a good professor infront of them
@phillipnevels15982 жыл бұрын
One of the students who did not do her reading assignment. As a former teacher, I recognize those type of students immediately. They never raise their hand and are doing something that can be distracting to the teacher.
@LawnBunny7772 жыл бұрын
She's hoping a Hollywood agent is watching
@valpergalit7 жыл бұрын
High school professors translating novels? My teachers in Kentucky can hardly speak English. I think this goes to show how education is totally subjective throughout the country. Probably why the south is still stereotypically stupid, as well.
@lwhamilton7 жыл бұрын
This guy's a professor, not the constant high school teacher. He was probably visiting.
@shonagraham27526 жыл бұрын
the south is not stereotypically stupid it is neither more intelligent or stupid than the north what it is typically is a victim of hypocrisy where the focus is on the south historically using slavery and never on the north historically using child labour which was not illegal in USA until 1938. Manufacturing used child labour agricultural used slavery no intellectual difference and no ethical one.
@kennethalbert46536 жыл бұрын
shona graham : your eloquence almost had me convinced... Then I used rational thought. The south is stereotyped as stupid, that is a fact, though not necessarily correct. Child labor is not morally the same as slave labor, even though both are reprehensible, because the children were paid and, presumably, worked of their own (or parents) consent. Not everything is a race issue!
@nightoftheworld4 жыл бұрын
Undergrad Lit Review yeah never had any guest lecturers invited into my southern HS
@stevecarter97562 жыл бұрын
@@kennethalbert4653 Slaves in the North and South were not paid? who much is food, clothing and shelter worth?
@Jharrycornelius3 жыл бұрын
Guilt
@victorious47013 жыл бұрын
I was thinking of the same title. That or "Death drive"
@kktreads9 ай бұрын
Guilt after murder
@theshoes74884 жыл бұрын
The pretty girl in the center of the front row adjusts her hair around 20 times..... enjoyed the lecture! Thanks for sharing
@bmw96685 жыл бұрын
Changing a hair twice in an hour. Seriously? So bored?
@jarrodyuki70812 жыл бұрын
germany will retake kaliningrad. and japan will retake the kurils Sakhalin and Vladivostok.
@user-gd9bi2hg5m4 жыл бұрын
its funny how westerners explain russian classik lit
@Leandro-ik2lx3 жыл бұрын
What are the differences?
@mizcracun Жыл бұрын
Они разбирают сюжет. Не понимая языка, разумеется. Заметь как он пытается объяснить разные понятия, разжевать.
@mizcracun Жыл бұрын
Хотя кажется что школьники абсолютно скучают. Философия Достоевского для них пустой звук.
@mnemonicpie Жыл бұрын
@@mizcracun чувствую, как ты радуешь своё эго этими словами. Это просто жалко. Я понимаю, не всем быть Достоевскими, но какой же кринж я испытываю каждый раз от каждого подобного сообщения от моего дебильного соотечественника.
@mizcracun Жыл бұрын
@@mnemonicpie испытывай хоть по 200 раз в день. Мне то зачем сообщать об этом?
@joanwagner81573 жыл бұрын
“The definition of an anti Semite is one who hates Jews MORE THEN IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.” I think Prof Katz said this. Strikes me as anti Semitic. Implies that if someone hates Jews only the “necessary” amount - they are NOT anti Semite. What are your thoughts on this. Just curious
@davestites84442 жыл бұрын
If this offends you you know absolutely nothing about Jewish culture whatsoever and should therefore just shut up. There's a fat girl with blue hair out there who would love for you to take up her cause instead.
@rarieli774 ай бұрын
Because everyone is antisemitic. It's in the blood. The eternal Jew is to be hated, and God will curse those who do. The plight of a Jew.
@jeongjinbaek49227 жыл бұрын
The priviledge to anaylse and almost romanticize poverty.
@raskolnikov92485 жыл бұрын
Are you saying that academics should only analyse books that represent their exact social strata? How exact? Should we have "working class fiction" classes and "middle class fiction" classes? Or are you talking sanctimonious knee-jerk horseshit?
@Thewonderingminds5 жыл бұрын
@@raskolnikov9248 I would like to be invited to share factual reality and not salarified entertainment.
@ThomasPH123 Жыл бұрын
42 minutes in, brainwashed student makes the story all about the “patriarchy” so she can solidify her opinions about said patriarchy and set the stage for her current and future victimhood…and the professor goes all in with her on it. How can I read one of the greatest books ever written and reduce it down to my oppression complex which is in league with the current social narrative, score points with my professor, and show my fellow students how totally smart I am when I didn’t really read the book because I just read a feminist hit piece about it from my favorite blogger?
@die_schlechtere_Milch5 ай бұрын
Well, you would probably like to know if many people who are responsible for the spread of this nonsense have funny last names.
@paulbadman85095 жыл бұрын
The joke in the beginning was full of russophobic sentiment. Couldn’t bother to watch further after that.
@user-bi4oq1gr3c3 жыл бұрын
Prof mentioned that it was a Russian joke. Which I have never heard of in Russia though Still one does not have to be this sensitive.
@ilan84682 жыл бұрын
It’s just a joke. He also made a cliche out of the Frenchman.
@vickypaige14536 жыл бұрын
I think the translation was perfect. Total waste of $$$. Will never read it because I have read the book at least 7 times. I actually hate people who think they are intellectuals and act like they need to interpret for me.I have my own brain thank you very much! I can interpret just fine.Not a higher level conversation like J Peterson.
@iiCookiie7xd4 жыл бұрын
wtf r u on?
@unknowable26174 жыл бұрын
If I'm not wrong he has a PhD in Russian lit from Oxford Uni. If anything, he's more of an expert than Peterson. And he's speaking to high schoolers, so I think that would explain his approach.
@daveh2693 жыл бұрын
Yes you may be right but so many young people are so early miss lead never forming their own conclusions. This is why American will be run by socialist.
@mizcracun Жыл бұрын
Правильно. Читайте на русском!
@leonardpiercy98375 жыл бұрын
Extremely boring.
@mizcracun Жыл бұрын
You don't read book. 100%
@leonardpiercy9837 Жыл бұрын
@@mizcracun Actually, fool, I've lost count of the times I've read thar book.... but this lecture left me needing an adrenaline shot.