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Kelly Lee Owens, Stephen Sondheim, Rowan Williams, Black Obsidian Sound System

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Dostyevsky

I wanted to ask about another thing, which is you made documentary recently about the russian novelist dostoyevsky. Would you mind reading us the start of i the first section likeit still warm from sleep, but the rain seeps in, greasing the pavements. Nobody knows that this is the shortest day midwinter. Night falls before the sun is properly up. I think of it smeared cold with rain, and then the iron woollen smell around the noise,. Then the cracked piano and the hymns and the dismissal when the day ends. Thank you so much. And i really appreciate you reading just a section of that. It is a really beautiful poem.

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