hahaha

[dubdobdee]

"I was unable at first to find my way into either the manner of his delivery or the train of his thought. Exhausted, morose, he sat there as if collapsed into himself, his head bent down, and while speaking kept turning pages and searching into his folio notebooks, forward and backward, high and low. His constant clearing of his throat and coughing interrupted any flow of speech. Every sentence stood alone and came out with effort, cut in pieces and jumbled... Eloquence that flows smoothly presupposes that the speaker is finished with the subject inside and out and has it by heart*... this man, however, had to raise up the most powerful thoughts from the deepest ground of things... a more vivid representation of these diffculties and this immense trouble than was accomplished by the manner of his delivery would be inconceivable." (H.G.Hotho on Hegel the lecturer)

*This is nonsense btw