A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

SUGGESTED FICTION

Tracey Chevalier, The Last Runaway (New York: Dutton, 2013) ("When an abstract principle became entangled in daily life, it lost its clarity and became compromised and weakened. Honor did not understand how this could happen, and yet it had: the Haymakers had demonstrated how easy[?] it was to justify stepping back from principles and dong nothing. Now that she was a member of this family, she was expected to take on its history and step back as well." Id. at 227. On Meditation: "And because she did not have to form thoughts into words for others, after a time Honor could stop thinking, and just be.... Closing her mouth seemed to heighten her senses. It was a different sensation from the sinking down feeling she'd had in past Meetings, but she began to think that it was as meaningful. God make his presence felt in many ways, she thought." "She did not ask herself why, but accepted the silence as a gift." Id. at 229-230.).