1:02:02
I owe you one.
1:02:04
Don't forget.
1:02:25
It's 1942, right?
1:02:29
And he's caught in
Leningrad during the siege.
1:02:32
I'm talking about one of the
worst moments in human history.
1:02:35
Five hundred thousand people
died in that one place,
1:02:38
and there's Bakhtin,
holed up in an apartment,
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expecting to be killed any day.
1:02:42
He has plenty of tobacco,
but no paper to roll it in.
1:02:45
So he takes the pages of a manuscript
he's been working on for ten years
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and tears them up to
roll his cigarettes.
1:02:53
His only copy?
1:02:54
His only copy.
1:03:02
I mean, if you think you're going to die, what's
more important, a good book or a good smoke?
1:03:07
And so he huffed and he puffed, and
little by little he smoked his book.
1:03:13
Nice try. You had me going
for a second, but no...
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no writer would ever
do a thing like that.
1:03:18
Would he?
1:03:22
You don't believe me, huh?
1:03:26
I'll show you. It's all in this book.
1:03:32
What's this?
1:03:33
I don't know.
1:03:36
Is it yours?
1:03:39
Yeah, it might be.
1:03:42
Here, catch.
1:03:48
So you're saying it
wasn't like that at all.
1:03:52
Not exactly. I mean, there
was more to it than I told you.
1:03:56
Christ. You didn't
just see what happened.
1:03:58
They dropped the package on
the ground and you picked it up.