early legal influences
ezra pound's extradition and incarceration in a mental hospital for speaking on italian radio---interpreted by USGVT as treason
james joyce free speech restriction
vladimir nabokov's difficulty with lolita
mahatma gandhi's story of my experiments with truth
other early legal influences:
our priest father stobel's work with the homeless
witnessing racism in the south including the beating of black men by white cops
the salem witch trials
the scarlet letter
father suing on copyright theft
mother suing on pharmaceutical manslaughter of my young sister
their issues as landlords
mother's taking care of many homeless and poor families
food not bombs
literary influences:
everything in dad's huge book collection. i am stuck there between walls of books, lost in the heart of silence, east and west on either side.
i think of the blake and the dore.
and the washington post clippings on the JFK matter.
i went to st. cecilia academy in nashville, tennessee.
i read nietzsche's the gay science (or the happy wisdom) at sixteen. that volume and even gandhi's autobiography were destroyed in the great fascist book purge of 1994 wich cleansed the library of such gems.
the librarian who profiled book-burning in her free speech and banned books month---got sacked by the catholic nuns.
i noticed.
i spent every lunch period curled up with great books.
who needs food when there is nietzsche to read.
i read usually three books a week.
who has read james joyce ulysses 3x through plus finnegan's wake and war and peace, and ezra pounds cantos 2 and a half times?
it was more than pride but joy.
sometimes i wonder who else has read as many wikileaks cables and documents as i have.
then my hunger for law books is unabated---and miss the case law boks i have had, and a stable legal atmosphere, the wetherspoon library, and the stockholm riksdag library, and even the sverige's lag book i would pour over.
i miss also studying law on a huge apple desktop, with many pdfs open at one time---and the fonts enlarged for my poor eyes. i miss that. i sacrifice that to travel.
i miss also listening to podcasts and law lecture.
with learning curves---what was interesting becomes banal. so the mind must keep going and transcending.
there is always more information.
i remember the first time dad explained what his father taught me from his father---about there always being more information, more data.
he explained his father would be analyzing and correlating info from all the world's newspapers.
i was envious of getting all the best newspapers, and all the foreign language newspapers as well.
i loved latin and then french and german. and then swedish and spanish.
i am sorry about the abused people that are dying in factories to make apple computers.
james joyce free speech restriction
vladimir nabokov's difficulty with lolita
mahatma gandhi's story of my experiments with truth
other early legal influences:
our priest father stobel's work with the homeless
witnessing racism in the south including the beating of black men by white cops
the salem witch trials
the scarlet letter
father suing on copyright theft
mother suing on pharmaceutical manslaughter of my young sister
their issues as landlords
mother's taking care of many homeless and poor families
food not bombs
literary influences:
everything in dad's huge book collection. i am stuck there between walls of books, lost in the heart of silence, east and west on either side.
i think of the blake and the dore.
and the washington post clippings on the JFK matter.
i went to st. cecilia academy in nashville, tennessee.
i read nietzsche's the gay science (or the happy wisdom) at sixteen. that volume and even gandhi's autobiography were destroyed in the great fascist book purge of 1994 wich cleansed the library of such gems.
the librarian who profiled book-burning in her free speech and banned books month---got sacked by the catholic nuns.
i noticed.
i spent every lunch period curled up with great books.
who needs food when there is nietzsche to read.
i read usually three books a week.
who has read james joyce ulysses 3x through plus finnegan's wake and war and peace, and ezra pounds cantos 2 and a half times?
it was more than pride but joy.
sometimes i wonder who else has read as many wikileaks cables and documents as i have.
then my hunger for law books is unabated---and miss the case law boks i have had, and a stable legal atmosphere, the wetherspoon library, and the stockholm riksdag library, and even the sverige's lag book i would pour over.
i miss also studying law on a huge apple desktop, with many pdfs open at one time---and the fonts enlarged for my poor eyes. i miss that. i sacrifice that to travel.
i miss also listening to podcasts and law lecture.
with learning curves---what was interesting becomes banal. so the mind must keep going and transcending.
there is always more information.
i remember the first time dad explained what his father taught me from his father---about there always being more information, more data.
he explained his father would be analyzing and correlating info from all the world's newspapers.
i was envious of getting all the best newspapers, and all the foreign language newspapers as well.
i loved latin and then french and german. and then swedish and spanish.
i am sorry about the abused people that are dying in factories to make apple computers.
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