Despite the darkness of tension of his novel "The Devils", Dostoevsky still manages to throw in some humor:
"Only Lyamshin had been there before, and he was telling everybody that the saint had ordered him to be driven out with a broom and had thrown two large boiled potatoes after him with his own hand."
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Shostakovich wrote a song cycle based on the lyrical outbursts of the drunk Lyamshin--"The Cockroach" is one of my faves.
I may have heard that song cycle somewhere...do you know who has recorded it?
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