he was a big fan

Joan Didion Sloughing Towards Bethlehem   among others

                                                                somehowsome way she turned him onto John Rawls Political Liberalism the ideal of public reason  the citizenry must engage each other in terms of reason whose status is shared between them

Rawls  . . . people should imagine sitting behind a veil of ignorance that keeps them from knowing who they are  from identifying with their personal circumstances

Didion wrote breathtaking when he read it I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking . . .

that identified put an X on its back was how he wrote

                                                            when puzzlepieces werent fallin together he was excellent doing puzzles hed take fivestretch his legsnot think  utterly take in his surroundings

then return

not look atperuse what he wrote

pickup his mediumpoint red BIC Cristal

put something downany thing down

something shifted

something moved the hell out of his way

                                             hed see

    liberated himself twothree times a week

the liberated greeted him

                           Where have you been?

Me

    You

Here. Was told to wait.

                              Somebody would come.

Im assuming you.

Seen anybody else

Take a look around.

                        Why . . why would anyone come around here.                               

after 1805,  Saturday,  13  7. 25

1649,  Sunday,  13  7. 25

https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/veil-of-ignorance#:~:text=Philosopher%20John%20Rawls%20suggests%20that,identifying%20with%20our%20personal%20circumstances.

https://lithub.com/joan-didion-why-i-write/#:~:text=%22I%20write%20entirely%20to%20find,see%20and%20what%20it%20means.%22&text=In%20many%20ways%2C%20writing%20is,aggressive%2C%20even%20a%20hostile%20act.