Not a Parody
Not a Parody Gore backers, unhappy that his former lawyer Laurence Tribe had called on Gore to concede, called attention to Tribe's website, www.thetribes.com. —News item Hi! I'm Larry I've...
...Having said that, I should stress that I despise injustice and human suffering and want to do my part to help overcome both, but, in the end, I think I can do more through seeing connections and deepening people's understanding than through direct service...
...I love them all more than life itself...
...And, as for life, sometimes I love it, and sometimes, frankly, I don't...
...I particularly like Bellini's "St.Francis of Assisi" at the Frick in Manhattan...
...I do despair, though, of ever discovering eternal truths in the social sciences, and when I'm in a truth-obsessed mode, I despair of ever finding in the world of law any proposition half as remarkable as, say, the fact that: e to the i Pi = -1 I love brilliant magenta sunsets, unagi, Martin Amis' "Time's Arrow," the fish tank at MGH, T.S...
...Stuff about black holes interests me, in the end, more than stuff about corporate (or even, at times, constitutional) law...
...I'm Larry I've written about, taught, and practiced constitutional law for many years, having joined the Harvard law faculty in the fall of 1968, just before I turned 27...
...Nothing means more to me, though, than my kids Mark and Kerry, and my wife Carolyn...
...But law too has its deep structures and amazing symmetries, and I find an elegant constitutional argument almost as inspiring as an elegant mathematical proof...
...In a future life, I think I might try astronomy or astrophysics, or maybe even pure math, which was my favorite subject in college and grad school...
...That's why teaching and working on the third edition of my treatise, American Constitutional Law, due out in the year 2000, mean a lot to me...
...I love Mozart, Simon & Garfunkel and Joan Baez, who played at the Mount Auburn Club in 1961...
...I have been having a great time (after much initial hemming and hawing) with my PC and even my Zaurus and would love to see what's wrought by science and technology over the next couple of centuries...
...I'm something of a political news junkie, but I am fairly disillusioned with politics in the 1990s...
...I am nonetheless anything but apolitical (although my legal views are much less result-oriented and certainly less politically driven than some people seem to suppose...
...Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," eating, my stairmaster, looking at the ocean, dreaming about impossible things, New Yorker car toons, the twist in a short story, The Hotel New Hampshire, good (and even not-so-good) movies, re-reading The Great Gatsby and Ethan Fromme, and Monet and Vermeer...
...I still love reading about the search for a unified TOE ("theory of everything"), although I can't really pretend to know a superstring from a supernova...
Vol. 6 • December 2000 • No. 15
