The longest lecture
It’s for a worthy cause. Otherwise, I simply can’t fathom doing it myself. I’m glad to see that the topic is democracy.
It’s evidently taken Mr. Muzawazi two-and-a-half years to face the prospect of yet another marathon speech. But starting on Wednesday, December 9, at noon local time, the 25-year-old law student commenced what is being billed as “The Longest Lecture,” a planned 130-hour talk on, you guessed it, democracy.
The lecture, which Mr. Muzawazi is giving at Jagiellonian University, in Krakow, Poland, is being presented in English—except for the introduction, which he read in six languages. Throughout his lecture, he sits and stands, talks and rambles, and often reads text verbatim. When we were watching, Mr. Muzawazi, who was recognized as this year’s “best foreign student in Poland,” read passages on fascism and monarchies from the Web-based “Science Encyclopedia”…
