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Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation About Writing by Kurt Vonnegut, Lee Stringer
4.0
A very short read. The first half reported on a book reading held in 1998, in which Lee Stringer and Kurt Vonnegut discuss their new books. The second half deals with a private follow-up conversation that the authors had.
I especially liked the way they brought Mark Twain and heaven and Hell into it.
My favorite passage, an excerpt from Stringer's book "Grand Central Winter":
"When it comes to justice, the kind that gets you locked up is different than the kind you find inside. Personally I would like to see all judges and district attorneys made to do time. Not for the crimes they commit from the bench. For those they commit out of ignorance. Which is precisely why time in prison should be part of their qualifications. So that they might come to know what they don't know they don't know.
Let them sit faceless and despised in the holding cells, let them be run through the wringer of their process until the wind has been wrung out of their self-righteousness. And let them stumble upon the wisdom every two-bit con knows instinctively, that real justice is always poetic."
I especially liked the way they brought Mark Twain and heaven and Hell into it.
My favorite passage, an excerpt from Stringer's book "Grand Central Winter":
"When it comes to justice, the kind that gets you locked up is different than the kind you find inside. Personally I would like to see all judges and district attorneys made to do time. Not for the crimes they commit from the bench. For those they commit out of ignorance. Which is precisely why time in prison should be part of their qualifications. So that they might come to know what they don't know they don't know.
Let them sit faceless and despised in the holding cells, let them be run through the wringer of their process until the wind has been wrung out of their self-righteousness. And let them stumble upon the wisdom every two-bit con knows instinctively, that real justice is always poetic."