Live/Evil

I had jury duty today. It was anticlimactic: after an hour and a half, everyone was dismissed. Where's the justice in that?

As advised, I brought with me ample reading material. Yet none of it satisfied. Everything I had left me wanting more, and, at that, more luridness. A bookcase at the back of the jury waiting room held out hope, and satisfied it. I took my book back with me to my table and set into some really bad writing and characterization. I had only got eleven pages in before being dismissed, but that was enough to learn of Sam, the high-powered conservative NYC talk-show host who listens to Dylan, the Boss, and Toby Keith (being a plumber's son with Jersey in his heart and his heart in Jersey, wheresoever else in Manhattan the rest of him might be), thus establishing that, although he acts in accordance with Mammon's dictates, he does not act from them, that he thinks this of the death threats that, as a prominent right-winger in New York, he receives nearly constantly: Since Sam was a firm believer in the right to bear arms, as well as carry them, he wasn't fazed. (Kathleen O'Reilly, Beyond Seduction, p 11)

What a bold interpretation!

Comments

[baa]

Hey man,

Wrong place for this comment, I guess, but very nice of you (& Michael) and the rest of the unfogged gang to comment kindly about my house fire. We got amazingly lucky and have come out of it as well as could be imagined.

[Ben Wolfson]

Thanks, and glad to see you're still ok.