A particularly fascinating Supreme Court dispatch about from the incomparable Dahlia Lithwick. I would have thought the argument would have been that smoke entering the non-smoking section was an accident. That's definitely exterior to the passenger, and it should be unexpected; clearly the poor man who died didn't expect it. The fact that it's an accident that happens regularly, and doesn't kill most people shouldn't matter. The evil stewardess is a distraction. I love the hypothetical about coffee throwing stewardesses. But you can't trick me into becoming a lawyer this easily; I know that they have to write papers on a deadline. Sometimes I think that maybe they'd be easier papers to write than say, essays on Pride and Prejudice, but still, it would be writing papers for a living.
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08:56:26 AM,
Thursday 13 November 2003
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The night before last I had a dream where I was reading a Sony-style instruction manual, which gave me instructions on how to breathe. I then woke up, having difficulty breathing because of a swollen throat and stuffy nose. Later that night I had a recurring dream involving gears and latches, which had to be set a certain way, the sense and importance of which was proportional to how sleepy I was. As I drifted to sleep, I started understanding it, then I'd have to swallow, and I'd wake up, and it was all gibberish again. I spent yesterday with a fever, during which I was extremely worried that I wasn't bored. I felt I should be bored, but I couldn't be bothered to do anything.
If it weren't for the construction workers, I'd take a series of pictures showing how a highway bridge is built from underneath, but I'm still unable to expose my film in public.
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05:13:36 PM,
Wednesday 12 November 2003
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The cat was running around, lost to reason, when there was suddenly a yowl, followed by a loud bang, and I haven't seen him since. Well, that's a lie, he's under the bed, but I'm still pleased with the idea; perhaps he encountered an anti-cat, or reached 88 scale miles per hour.
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