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.

Monday, March 17, 2014

IF ONE IS TALKING ALL THE TIME, WHEN DOES ONE HAVE TIME TO THINK?

Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, introduced by Adam Roberts, illustrated by Jonathan Burton (London: The Folio Society, 2011) ("It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in 'It's a nice day,' or 'You're very tall,' or 'So this is it, we're going to die.' His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably seized up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--if human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working." Id. at 137.).