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by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
One of my supervising attorneys is 88 years old. He basically helped invent tort law in Oregon and has been influential in anything you can name. The governor comes by to get his opinion on judicial appointments and whatnot, and in his prime, he was called "the prince of torts."
In my first week of working for him, he called me into his office. When he was 14 years old, he told me, the young men of military age had all gone off to war. This left the boys like him and the old men to work in the logging jobs in Eugene. So, he went to work. "I'll never forget," he said, "Those old men who knew so well what they were doing that they could spot any problem with my work immediately. They would just look at me until I went over all of my work and figured out what was wrong." As he told the story he teared up, remembering people who had long passed from his life.
It wasn't until the next day that I realized he was talking about me. He was talking about how I am the young newbie in our office and he is the old person who can look at a job and know exactly what's wrong.
About a year later, he gave me this book. I had told him how I've had difficulty sitting down and reading a book since law school, and how I often listen to audio books while I'm walking instead. He started giving me short books for my short attention span.
This is probably the smartest book about revenge and censorship I've ever read. Anything else I tell you will be a spoiler, so just go read it.
In my first week of working for him, he called me into his office. When he was 14 years old, he told me, the young men of military age had all gone off to war. This left the boys like him and the old men to work in the logging jobs in Eugene. So, he went to work. "I'll never forget," he said, "Those old men who knew so well what they were doing that they could spot any problem with my work immediately. They would just look at me until I went over all of my work and figured out what was wrong." As he told the story he teared up, remembering people who had long passed from his life.
It wasn't until the next day that I realized he was talking about me. He was talking about how I am the young newbie in our office and he is the old person who can look at a job and know exactly what's wrong.
About a year later, he gave me this book. I had told him how I've had difficulty sitting down and reading a book since law school, and how I often listen to audio books while I'm walking instead. He started giving me short books for my short attention span.
This is probably the smartest book about revenge and censorship I've ever read. Anything else I tell you will be a spoiler, so just go read it.