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The Power Of One

A con­ver­sa­tion between a small girl (Scout) and her father (Atti­cus) from To Kill A Mock­ing­bird:
“Do you defend nig­gers, Atti­cus?” I asked him that evening.
“Of course I do. Don’t say nig­ger, Scout. That’s com­mon.”
“ ‘s what every­body at school says.”
“From now on it’ll be every­body less one.”

An Equal Music: Book Review

I’m not much of a fic­tion lit­er­a­ture guy. In fact, you could say I’m fic­tion­ally illit­er­ate. When I read blogs with promi­nent book­shelves, or ‘Lit­er­ary Exper­i­ments’ in the tag line, I get an infe­ri­or­ity com­plex. My Unquiet Mind has to con­front the real­ity that I’m pretty much a moron when it comes to