15 Jun 2000 rachel   » (Master)

On the very hot night - Tuesday night - I dreamed that I was in a shallow doze and kept waking up. But when I woke up for real - if that's what this is - I realized that my dream had been a big, confused web-surf, in which "waking up" had meant clicking back to the Linux Journal home page.

Dream spam. Bah. This looks like the work of Don Marti.

On the bright side, I just found a copy of Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory, which I've wanted for ages. It's a relief. I've been feeling a bit lost. I had a great run with Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey-Maturin series and Jane Smiley's Horse Heaven. Since then I've been trying to get stuck into Graves' Lawrence and the Arabs or Nabokov's Sebastian Knight, but neither of them have grabbed me yet.

Nabokov will get me in the end. He always does.

I have the depositions in the DeCSS case printed out and sitting in front of me, and my colleagues are enjoying a good chuckle at my expense. The stack of paper is three inches high. So far I've read Jack Valenti (one inch), who says he knows nothing, nothing. As I was reading it, I kept thinking of Gates' videotaped deposition in the antitrust case. Then Eben Moglen called and said "Didn't it remind you of Gates in the antitrust case?"

Two inches' worth of dry legal document to go.

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