To the anonymous commenter who visited earlier today: I haven’t posted your comment, because I just don’t want that man’s name on my blog. The whole point of that article of course was that the notion of restorative justice might indeed seem quite odd. But in Norway, it doesn’t. The sentence you quoted is, in context, a statement of the Norwegian perspective, not a declaration of some transcendental truth.
“Orange Crate Art” is a song by Van Dyke Parks and the title of a 1995 album by Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson. It is, to my mind, one of the great American songs: “Orange crate art was a place to start.” Comments are welcome, appended to posts or by
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[O]ur worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
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To the anonymous commenter who visited earlier today: I haven’t posted your comment, because I just don’t want that man’s name on my blog. The whole point of that article of course was that the notion of restorative justice might indeed seem quite odd. But in Norway, it doesn’t. The sentence you quoted is, in context, a statement of the Norwegian perspective, not a declaration of some transcendental truth.
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