There is not even the taste of ashes,

only blankness and an unforgiving sigh. - If criminal law is red (revenge and justice rolled into one colour,) and contract law is blue (hiding the sea waves below it in chaos,) then tort law is magenta (a hue more red than blue.) As C has absentmindedly pointed out over a couple of classes, this...

If kaya is a jam,

the fruit it comes from is labour. Hainanese kaya! - Amazingly or otherwise, I've finished the minimum required (ie. unforgivingly numerous) readings for this week. I also have una esame di italiano domani, ma io so (think?) è going essere cosi-cosi. I have a portrait but no attic - it is the image reflected in...

Half her face hidden in those voluminous sleeves,

a performance, plucking the strings of her pipa. And maybe I can be the seonbi in the robes of not quite blue and not quite green. - Io scrivo e leggo, ma non ho sonno. Something like that. I was going to title this along the lines of the opening of the poem below. To...

They blow through the case readings

like the wild wind does, echoing through the hollowness of a forest. - Someone mentioned to me that it feels like the readings never end, we only had the rejoinder that in the lecture, our three hours worth of case readings are equivalent to three minutes of air time. The three minutes are double-counted as...

(To my younger sibling) “Are you with me,”

Is Professor R's catchphrase and bless that heart. I am with you and not. With you in spirit and ideology and thinking but not there in passable skill or writing or even speed. But I do not suppose that they do not know. We should in fact suppose that they know we do not know....

TV shows are not representative

of the real world, but that doesn't stop us from watching them and wishing they were real because sometimes the reality hits you and you wonder, why can't the world be kinder and nicer and better? - Instead of asking, "Why can't people be kind," ask something like, "Do you want to be kind?" Place...