Translation

"The most effective form of law enforcement is not the imposition of external sanctions, but the inculcation of internal obedience."

AKA The fanciest way of saying "...those who did it know their blame and I'm sure that the guilt you feel is far worse than any punishment you might receive.  Now don't you feel terrible?  Don't you feel remorse for what you have done?"

I can't believe it has been a month since I have had the time to properly write.  Not ok.  I have sat down so many times to chat about life, the universe, and everything only to get pulled away to work on something for school or my internship or whatever.  I don't want to only write token bits and pieces so I find myself needing some real time to write and it just hasn't been happening.

Since I last wrote, I....

Important Question

At what point does the number of loyalty cards in your wallet prove disloyalty?

Dear Everyone:

I don't know how to explain just how busy it's been since I landed back in London.  I promise that after Wednesday I will be able to get back to writing.  Oh, how I've missed it!!!  I would say I've missed you too but I saw a lot of you in person last fortnight (is that a phrase?  I'm going to go with it) and that was awesome!  For those of you I haven't seen in a long while (and everyone else too) , please write me an email/postcard/letter/message in a bottle and tell me all your news!

Books

I have yet to post about my love for books.  The problem lies not in my lack of words on the subject but rather in the overabundance of them.  I can't seem to find the time to write out a comprehensive description of why I love them.  For my papers this term I have been writing a lot about the destruction of books (a topic suggested by a fellow bibliophile).  The history of book burning and the systematic destruction of books is fascinating (so much so that I get carried away by reading as the hours pass by in a flash leaving me with less time to write my paper and more books added to my reading list).  Suffice to say I should be writing for school at this moment and not on here so I will leave you with a quote I just came across and enjoyed:

"Of all man's instruments, the most astonishing is, without any doubt, the book.  The others are extensions of his body.  The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his eyes; the telephone an extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of his arm.  But the book is something else; the book is an extension of memory and imagination"
~Jorge Luis Borges