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.

Friday, March 7, 2014

OUR SUFFERING HAS LITTLE OR NO MEANING

Robert Stone, Death of the Black-Haired Girl (Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) (" 'History . . . history is poisoned by claims on underlying truth. . . .' 'Because people always want their suffering to mean something.' " Id. at 281.).