"Have you read Proust?" he asked me during an unsuccessful clerkship interview years ago, and then wistfully said he wished he could take a year off to teach a college seminar on Proust and Henry Adams.Law professor Jeffrey Rosen, in a New York Times op-ed piece on David Souter.
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This post reminds me of your April 27th reference to Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi." The more I learn about Justice Souter on the eve of his retirement--he doesn't own a television or a cell phone, for instance--the more I wish he'd stick around.
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