Midterms and Music

A friend V.I. Lenin once wrote about him:

One evening in Moscow, when Lenin was listening to Beethoven sonatas...he said: "I know nothing greater than the Appassionata; I'd like to listen to it every day. It's beautiful, superhuman music. I always think proudly--it may be naive--what marvelous things people can do....
But I can't listen to music too often, it...makes you want to say kind, silly things, to stroke the heads of the people who, living in a terrible hell, can create such beauty. Nowadays you mustn't stroke anyone's head, you'd get your hand bitten off, you've got to hit them over their heads, without mercy, although, ideally we're agianst the use of force. H'm, H'm, our duty is infernally hard."