[quote=Giovanni Martini]
[quote=Giovanni Martini]
Don't be so ea silly off-put, sometimes you find worthwhile things in strange places. I agree, the millieu that grew up around his ideas are off-putting. But that is the millieu, not the ideas.
On another topic, it is said that Tolstoy, after freeing his serfs, regularly laboured with them, early morning until noon. Digging ditches, hoeing the potatoes and peas, and etc. Then he sallied home, ate a bowl of borscht, drank a glassl of vodka, had a nap, and spent the rest of his day in intellectual pursuits. Can anyone say `paradise'?
Enter the cod above: I have never entered a cod, and likely never will, except in extremus distressus.