Fyodor. 😢. The word "sorry" would not make much sense here, if I just wanted to apologize for not being able to find the greatest pleasure in reading your masterpiece, but for that I feel sorry only for myself. Spooked too, about my intellectual abilities, big time. I hope my parents will never find out about this.

The first time I heard about The Brothers Karamazov was from the pulpit. My father, a Lutheran pastor, interweaves literary, historical and philosophical references in his sermons. ...