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For a while in my post-HS youth I worked with my stepfather, the
electrician, who was working for a lawyer on conversion of a barn into
apartments.
The job was not so much a working experience as I spent more time
listening to stories than anything else.
You see... my grandfather worked for my father also and he was ALWAYS
ready to stop and tell a story.
But we had this other fellow working with us who worked directly for the
lawyer. He had a son my age that I had gone to school with.
The reason the fellow worked for the lawyer was that the guy needed
representation but had no money.
He did not say a whole lot and he spent a great deal of time sweeping.
But when he did talk I listened.
He had been a postal carrier until one day he got pissed at the junk
mail and threw it all away instead of delivering it.
But that was not why he needed the lawyer. The reason he needed the
lawyer... and this was during the Nixon presidency, was that he had
written in a letter to a friend of his that if the president did not get
his act together that someone might shoot him. This was not looked on
favorably by the Feds.
I do not remember the man's name. But I do remember that he encouraged
me that the ONLY book to read is Tolstoy's /War and Peace/.
He did end up spending a few years in Danbury Fed for his words.
I never have read /War and Peace/, being contrary, and figuring the
effect of Tolstoy can lead to extreme consequences, I read /Anna Karenina/.
My not reading /War and Peace/ is a hold out... I'm not ready for what
it may bring to my life.
Bad enough I read /Crime & Punishment/ while in jail. There is
schizophrenia in my family. Got to watch that stuff.

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