Justice Thomas exposed in one sentence.

[Hamlette]

The only good way to learn about writing is to read good writing,” says Chief Justice John Roberts.

That sentiment is echoed by Breyer, who points to Proust, Stendhal and Montesquieu as his inspirations. Justice Anthony Kennedy loves Hemingway, Shakespeare, Solzhenitsyn, Dickens and Trollope.

Justice Thomas says a good legal brief reminds him of the TV show 24. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says one of the great influences on her writing was her European literature professor at Cornell, Vladimir Nabokov — yes, the same Nabokov who later rocked the literary world with his widely acclaimed novel Lolita.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/06/14/a-world-of-information-in-one-sentence/

How sad is that?

[Sonoman]

1. Slappy is gonna glide....

that's the way it's wired.

Get used to it.

Ain't never going away.

Sonoman

[hlthe2b]

4. I'd really love to a fly on the wall to hear what his colleagues...

REALLY think of him... Disgusting waste of protoplasm, that one.

[JDPriestly]

2. I like Breyer's taste in literature. His favorites are also some of mine.

Interesting that he likes Proust, Stendhal and Montesquieu. Must be the sort of architectural method in their writing. Proust builds on retracing memories. Stendhal wrote about social structures. Montesquieu wrote about the structure of a possible government.

Those authors are what you would expect a person with a legal mind to like. Shakespeare is pretty much everyone's favorite. Kennedy's tastes go to drama and pathos more than Breyer's. Breyer likes a certain rationality. Breyer goes more for the romantic story -- drama. Not that Stendhal doesn't have his own drama, but . . . Breyer likes it a bit drier as I see it.

I don't quite understand Ginsburg's taste. Doesn't fit somehow.

Anyway. Thanks. I would not expect any more than this of Clarence Thomas. He is kind of a would'a if he could'a guy.

[madrchsod]

3. lolita? .i wonder if ruth read that novel......

[tblue37]

5. More likely _Invitation to a Beheading_. Pnin_. Pale Fire_, and that sort of thing. nt