Leo Tolstoy. The Kreutzer Sonata (№ 353251)

... a terrible thing is music. What is it? I don't understand. What is music? What is she doing? And why she is doing what she is doing? They say the music is soul uplifting way, nonsense, not true! It acts, terrible acts, I'm talking about myself, but not a soul uplifting way.
It acts neither uplifting nor oppose the soul way, but an annoying soul way. How do you say? Music makes me forget myself, my true situation, it transports me somewhere else, and not its position I under the influence of music it seems that I feel what I actually do not feel that I understand what they do not understand that can do things that can't...
It, music, from, directly carries me to the mental state in which I was the one who wrote the music...
whoever wrote though Kreutzer Sonata is Beethoven, because he knew why he was in such a condition, is a condition led to his famous deeds, and because for him, this condition makes sense, for me, no...
And because music is so terrible, so horrible sometimes acts...
Is it possible to allow everyone who wishes, hypnotize one another, or many, and then would do what he wants with them. And most importantly, that the hypnotist was the first wicked man.