QUOTE FOR THE EVENING: I find it hard to believe, working my way through David Copperfield, that anyone could assign this book to someone young--I can't imagine they'd know what to do with, say, David and Dora; but I'll perhaps have more to say about this later. In the meantime, it's uncanny how much the life of a legal apprentice resembles grad school:
"My rooms were engaged for twelve months certain: and though I still found them dreary of an evening, and the evenings long, I could settle down into a state of equitable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee; which, it seems on looking back to have taken by the gallon at about this period of my existence."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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