Paul Conti

And I think when you take that part of the world for whatever reason, and maybe it's just totally random, or maybe it's aspects of geography and experience and migration, but there's such an intensity.

And I remember listening to Tchaikovsky say,

you know, very early on, maybe not for the very first time, but early on in my life, or reading Dostoevsky and feeling like, oh, Dostoevsky's willingness, his ability and his willingness to express and create something

such powerful, aberrant states of human experience.

Tchaikovsky in his music, the depths of suffering that it expresses has always stood out to me as a way that if that's the brightest light, so to speak, communicating information, that that's a place to look.

And it's also a place that resonated with me so strongly because I think for some people who are in formative years and having very difficult friendships,

feelings, right?

Of like a depth of feeling of like fear and how's the world going to be?

Am I going to be annihilated?

What do I even want?

What do I feel inside of me?

To encounter that being expressed so intensely, I found to be very, very

So I don't know if that's a good answer or not, but I think there's an intensity of expression and a fearlessness.

You know, Dostoevsky wrote about terrible things.

You know, what happens in the person?

Is there a person who is brilliant intellectually and very persuasive and very capable of being effective who also just chooses to be a child rapist?

Right.

I mean, he wrote about that.

He wrote about the truth of this is what we can be as humans.

And I think there's so many lessons, including the truth.