#journal of dali court

[miyamiwu]

Those who do great things shouldn’t sweat the small stuff. Sometimes, one even has to let go of personal pride.

—Lu Na, White Cat Legend / Dali Court Chronicles (大理寺日志)

[best-underrated-anime]

Tentative List of Submissions

Until the list of submissions is finalized, I will be accepting appeals for/against any of the shows on this list. SEND YOUR APPEALS THROUGH THIS BLOG’S SUBMIT PAGE. Appeals left in the replies or sent to my asks/DM’s will now be ignored.

By the way, I don’t follow a set standard in determining whether a show is underrated or not. I may keep in mind MyAnimeList ratings, but ratings are not absolute.

Some shows may have low stats on MAL, yet have strong voting power on Tumblr. Some may be popular in their home country but are not so well-known in English fandoms. (Tumblr is a site where most users are USAmericans, so the voting power is mainly with them. I have to consider this.)

Red - at risk of being removed

Blue - formerly accepted, but changed to pending/rejected upon an appeal/further review

Violet - formerly under rejected/pending, but now accepted

Green - newly-added

Orange - Triggers not stated. If you’re the submitter, please edit your submission in the form. Alternatively, you can add them to the Triggers Sheet (non-submitters can also help). If the show has no triggers, please still edit the form/sheet and check the “None” option so that I’ll know that you didn’t just forget. Thank you!

Updated: Oct. 20, 2023 08:00pm EST

Accepted

86 (Eighty-Six)

91 Days

Acca-13 Territory Inspection Department

After the Rain

Akagami no Shirayuki-hime

Akiba Maid War

Akudama Drive

A Place Further than the Universe

Are You Ok (You Yao)

Asobi Asobase

Beryl and Sapphire

Birdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story

BNA: Brand New Animal

Charlotte

Do It Yourself!!

Flip Flappers

Flowering Heart

Fukigen na Mononokean

Gakkougurashi!

Gakuen Babysitters

Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet

Gatchaman Crowds

Girl's Last Tour (Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou)

God Troubles Me

Gurazeni

Hakumei and Mikochi

Hanasaku Iroha: Blossoms for Tomorrow

Happy Sugar Life

Heike Monogatari

Hinamatsuri

HitoriBocchi no MaruMaru Seikatsu

Hoshiai no Sora (Stars Align)

Inuyashiki

Iroduku: The World in Colors

Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

Joshiraku

Kageki Shoujo!!

Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko

Karneval

Katana Maidens: Toji no Miko

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

Kemurikusa - Propaganda may contain spoilers (To submitter: the last part about Earth seems spoilery). Propaganda will be edited by admin.

Kiznaiver

Kyoukai no Rinne

Laughing under the clouds

Legend of Luo Xiaohei (series)

Link Click

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid

Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic

Mawaru Penguindrum

Megalo Box

Mignon

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!

No.6

No Doubt in Us

Non Non Biyori

Orient

Ping Pong the Animation

Plastic Memories - I won’t mark this as red because there is enough propaganda for it to be included. But I’m still waiting for someone to submit something more substantial about it. Also lacks triggers.

Please tell me! Galko-chan

Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live - Submitter might’ve shared too much about the drama in the show, spoiling it for others. Propaganda will be edited by admin.

Radiant

Requiem of the Rose King

Rokuhoudou Yostuiro Boyori

Run with the Wind

Sangatsu no Lion

Senki Zesshou Symphogear

Servamp

Shadows House

Shiki

Shinsekai Yori

Silver Spoon

Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle

Sonny Boy

Space Brothers (Uchuu Kyoudai)

Talentless Nana

Tamayura: Hitotose

The Executioner and Her Way of Life

The Royal Tutor

Tonari no Seki-kun

To Your Eternity

Trese

Tsuritama

Urusei Yatsura

Usagi Drop

Vampire in the Garden

Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song

Wasteful Days of High School Girls

Welcome to Demon School Iruma-kun

White Cat Legend 2020 (Dali si Rizhi/The Journal of Dali Court)

Wo Jia Dashixiong Naozi You Keng

Yurei Deco

Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero

Yuukoku no Moriarty

Zankyou no Terror

Zombieland Saga

Pending

If no reason is stated, then that submission simply had insufficient/unconvincing propaganda. Those with a (???) next to the title are shows I’m not sure are considered underrated. Anybody may submit an appeal on whether or not I should keep it.

Propaganda that needs revision can be edited by the submitter on the GForm. Others may also make a new submission with their own propaganda for it to be accepted.

If, for some reason, the original submitter cannot edit the GForm, then the updated propaganda may be sent to me here via ask or DM.

All shows that didn’t remove their pending status before Oct. 20, 8pm EST have been moved to Rejected.

Rejected

If no reason is stated, then that show has been rejected simply because it’s not considered underrated.

Angel Beats

Assassination Classroom

Astra: Lost in Space - insufficient/unconvincing propaganda

Buddy Daddies - one of the popular recent anime. Also has 390k tag followers on Tumblr

Cap Kakumei Bottleman DX - Propaganda contains too many spoilers. Also lacks triggers

Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card - Cardcaptor Sakura is one of the most popular shoujo. And since anime with multiple seasons are counted as one, the year the first season was released is what will be checked. Season 1 of CCS was released in 1998, so it’s disqualified from this tournament.

Death Parade

Delicious Party Precure - This show is apparently part of an extremely popular franchise. The propaganda for it was also not enough.

Dr. Stone - One of the recent mainstream anime. Ranked #54 on MAL for popularity with over 1 million members.

Inazuma Eleven GO

Kyoukai no Kanata - Has over a million members on MAL, rated by over 500k people, and is ranked #122 in terms of popularity. Also has 9.7k tag followers on Tumblr, which is very high compared to the other accepted shows

Kyousou Giga - insufficient/unconvincing propaganda and lacks triggers

Mekakucity Actors - the anime itself isn’t popular, but Kagerou Project, the Vocaloid music video series which it is based on, is extremely popular. #kagerou project has 14k tag followers.

Meganebu - insufficient/unconvincing propaganda and lacks triggers

Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun

Noragami - Ranked #47 in Tumblr’s Top AniManga Fandoms in 2021

Odd Taxi - won several awards during the 6th Crunchyroll Anime Awards as well as won against the iconic The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya in this poll with over 3k votes.

Planetarian - insufficient/unconvincing propaganda. Also lacks triggers.

Kekkai Sensen

Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai - Doesn’t have that many fics on AO3, but it ranks #52 on MAL in terms of popularity and has over 1M in both MAL users and members. Also has 1.4k tag followers on Tumblr—not a big number but still indicates an active fandom.

Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight - Although it’s rated low on MAL, it’s apparently quite popular on Tumblr. It won against the very popular Sailor Moon in another poll tournament with over 9k votes.

Tai Chi Chasers - Submitter either made a mistake or outright lied about the year this show was released. They stated 2011, but the actual year is 2007. That’s before 2010, which disqualifies it from this tournament.

Tian Guan Ci Fu/Heaven Official’s Blessing - made it to Tumblr’s top AniManga fandoms. It was ranked #14 in 2021 and #16 in 2022.

Vatican Miracle Examiner - insufficient/unconvincing propaganda

Violet Evergarden

[uovoc]

2023 Media consumption

God tier: media that invoked blorbo-induced euphoria, mini-obsession, or just haunt me

White Cat Legend (大理寺日志, Dali Court Journal) - donghua, seasons 1 and 2. The new vice minister of the imperial court of criminal justice is, unfortunately, a cat demon. Tang Dynasty workplace comedy/political intrigue. Lovely animation, sick fight scenes, and catboys.

Scissor Seven (刺客伍六七) - donghua, seasons 2-3. Netflix summary: "Seeking to recover his memory, a scissor-wielding, hairdressing, bungling quasi-assassin stumbles into a struggle for power among feuding factions." Season 1 was just ok at best, season 2 was great, season 3 was phenomenal, season 4 was meh.

Derkholm duology by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)

God Troubles Me / Hanhua Riji (汉化日记) - donghua. Cringefail loser girl Su Moting, her cringefail smartphone god, and her cringefail cat (demon) have to save the world. But first she has to go to work. And get takeout. And watch dramas. The premise sounds SO cringe but it's well-executed and hilarious. And actually a pretty sharp but good-humored window into the delights and horrors of modern everyday life in china.

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt (reread). At the peak of the California gold rush, hitmen Charlie and Eli Sisters are hired for a job that Eli is liking less and less. 1st-person perspective of a stone-cold killer, where it turns out the killer is just Some Guy. Who is kind of awkward. And pathetic. And maybe not very bright.

Gobelins graduation animated shorts: "Chroniques de l'Eau Salée" (2021), "Last Summer" (2022), and "Go Fishboy" (2022). Available to watch on YouTube. Got caught up on 2021 and 2022 and these are the ones that will haunt me.

Ranma 1/2 by Rumiko Takahashi - manga (reread). Teenage martial artist is cursed to transform into a hot girl whenever he's splashed with cold water. Still some of the funniest and most deranged comedy I've ever read.

"Golden Age" - short story by Naomi Novik set in the Temeraire universe. Hilarious and delightful Feral Temeraire AU.

Just ok: media that I didn't hate, and maybe even enjoyed

A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore

Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore

Glass Onion (2022) dir. Rian Johnson

Puss in Boots: the Last Wish (2022) dir. Joel Crawford

Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead

Witch's Business by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)

Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones (reread) - Charmed Life, The Lives of Christopher Chant, Mixed Magics, The Pinhoe Egg

Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Sharyn November. Faves: "Beauty" by Sherwood Smith, "Little Dot" by Diana Wynne Jones, and "Remember Me" by Nancy Farmer.

All Systems Red (异星危机) by Martha Wells, Simplified tr. by 黎思敏

All Saints Street (万圣街) - donghua, seasons 1-3

Moira's Pen by Megan Whalen Turner

Enchanted Glass by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)

The Game by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)

Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)

Selected Discworlds: Thief of Time, Unseen Academicals (reread)

The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer (reread)

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer

"Louise", Gobelins 2021 graduation animated short. Pretty good, but not god tier.

The Time of the Ghost by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)

Less by Andrew Sean Greer. Most of it was a slog, but the ending was wonderfully tender.

The Merlin Conspiracy by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)

Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke

Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

Spinning by Tillie Walden

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (reread)

The Mermaid (美人鱼) - movie (2016)

Exhalation by Ted Chiang. Fave: Exhalation

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Motorcity - cartoon (rewatch)

Sing 2 - movie

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves - movie

White Cat Legend (大理寺日志) manhua through chapter 186

A Monster in Paris - movie (rewatch)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - movie

Lionboy trilogy by Zizou Corder: Lionboy, The Chase, and The Truth (reread)

The Moorchild by Eloise McGraw

Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms (封神第一部：朝歌风云) - movie

Our Flag Means Death - season 2

Skellig by David Almond (reread). Even more unsettling and magical than I remembered.

The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (人渣反派自救系统) by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Savvy by Ingrid Law (reread)

The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry

Golden Age and Other Stories by Naomi Novik. "Golden Age" alone was amazing. Every thing else: meh.

Wonder by RJ Palacio except that the ending sucked

蓝溪镇 (Lanxi Zhen/Blue Creek Town) - manhua (reread), through chapter 112

Translation State by Ann Leckie

Disliked and often DNF'd

House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds

A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro

Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn

The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley

Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse

Palimpsest by Catherine Valente

Knives Out (2019) dir. Rian Johnson

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nhi Vgo

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots. Genuinely creative concept, enjoyable characters, and horrifying (affectionate) ending! Writing was just very, very bad.

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore

Stowaway by Karen Hesse

Nirvana in Fire (狼牙榜) - ok objectively it was fine. It was just SO long that I started losing patience at multiple points.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes on (2021) dir. Dean Fleischer Camp

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

Suzume - anime movie

Fairies Albums (百妖谱) - donghua

Link Click （时光代理人）- donghua

The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn by Tri Vuong - webcomic

Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo

Journey to the West: Demons Strike Back (西游伏妖篇) - movie

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Others Writings by Jorge Luis Borges

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

Frozen 2 - movie

Logan - movie

The Three Sisters of Tenmasou - movie

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Nothing new.

Bewilderment by Richard Powers

Nimona (2023) - movie

Prophet by Helen MacDonald and Sin Blache

One Piece - the live action Netflix series

Good Omens season 2

Birdwing by Rafe Martin

Blue Eye Samurai - netflix cartoon

Haven't You Heard I'm Sakamoto - anime

System Collapse by Martha Wells

The Cay by Theodore Taylor (reread)

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

Bottoms (2023) - movie

Daily Life of the Immortal King (仙王的日常生活) - donghua

Witch King by Martha Wells. Actually I enjoyed the Kai/Bashasa storyline a lot. The present-day storyline I found extremely boring. Which was unfortunate because it was more than half the book.

The King's Avatar (全职高手) - donghua

The Apothecary Diaries - anime

Assorted nonfiction

The Electricity of Every Living Thing by Katherine May. Bored. DNF

Alone in the Wilderness (2004) - dir. Dick Proenneke. Documentary of Proenneke's year spent living alone in the Alaskan wilderness. Neat look at one dude building a cabin, furniture, and all his accompanying household implements by hand.

A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia by Blaine Harden. The human and environmental significance of the Columbia dam system.

Gifted Earth: The Ethnobotany of the Quinault and Neighboring Tribes by Douglas Deur. Guide to key native species and their traditional uses.

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders. Four classic Russian short stories with accompanying technical analysis of their narrative construction. Great look at the process of writing and analyzing stories.

Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin - animal behavioral psychology

Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin - more animal behavioral psychology

Crying in HMart by Michelle Zauner. DNF. Felt like the book could have been 1/4 of its length. Mostly nothing new.

Wood in American Life: 1776-2076 by WG Youngquist and HO Fleischer. Wood use in America. Really makes you realize just how many things are now made out of plastic but used to be wood. And how much more difficult and expensive it was to make and replace objects.

Authentic Diversity: How to change the workplace for good by Michelle Silverthorn. Concise and nicely concrete. Would be a good starting place for an executive.

Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil - how some big data algorithms reinforce preexisting inequality, and how to improve them.

The Relationship Cure by Joan Declaire and John M. Gottman. The classic originator of the "bids for attention" approach. Pretty good, most helpful was the part where it identifies the styles of responses.

Essential Retirement Planning for Solo Agers: A Retirement and Aging Roadmap for Single and Childless Adults by Sara Zeff Geber

A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs

the excellent hyperlocal nature guidebook I bought after encountering the author at the mall

Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence, by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez. 2018 ed.

[mariacallous]

Latvian member of the European Parliament Tatjana Ždanoka has been accused of working with Russian intelligence services since 2004 in a joint investigation by Russian, Latvian, Estonian and Swedish media outlets.

Ireland’s Left independent MEPs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace have taken part in several events organised with Ms Ždanoka, including travelling with her to Lithuania in 2021 and 2022 to demonstrate in support of Algirdas Paleckis, a former politician and diplomat who was convicted of spying for Russia.

Ms Ždanoka, who represents a hardline electorate within Latvia’s Russian ethnic minority and has long advocated in the European Parliament on issues that chime with Russian foreign policy priorities, did not respond to a request for comment.

In a statement on her Facebook page on Monday, she declared, “I will not be intimidated by false accusations.” She denied collaborating with intelligence services, and vowed that “I and like-minded people continue and will continue to use the platform of the European Parliament to fight neo-fascism.”

The investigation by Russian independent news organisation The Insider, Estonian media outlet Delfi, Latvian investigative journalism centre Re:Baltica, and Swedish newspaper Expressen published emails between Ms Ždanoka and two people identified as intelligence agents in Russian security service, the FSB.

The emails dating from 2004 to 2017 show correspondence between Ms Ždanoka and two men that the reports describe as her “handlers” in the Russian intelligence services. The emails organise physical meetings in Moscow and Brussels, discuss her various activities in the parliament, and in one she requests funding for an event she organised.

She told The Insider that she did not recall knowing anyone with the name of one of the alleged Russian intelligence agents, and that the other was an acquaintance she knew socially.

Mr Wallace and Ms Daly have taken part in several events with Ms Ždanoka related to Russian issues.

Mr Wallace did not respond to a request for comment. In an email, Ms Daly said: “Would you ever cover the work that we actually do instead of occupying your time with these constant attempts to construct elaborate guilt-by-association conspiracy theories?”

Eight days before Russia invaded Ukraine, Ms Daly and Mr Wallace joined Ms Ždanoka for a protest in the European Parliament in which the three donned T-shirts bearing the slogan “stop killing Donbas children”. The slogan reflects the accusation that Ukrainian forces were killing children in the east of the country, part of Russia’s justification for its invasion, and the protest was widely covered in pro-Kremlin Russian media.

Ms Daly and Mr Wallace also took part in an online seminar about “politically motivated persecution in the Baltic States” with Ms Ždanoka in November 2021, according to a statement issued at the time by Ms Ždanoka’s Latvian Russian Union party.

As previously reported by The Irish Times, in November 2021 and March 2022 Ms Daly and Mr Wallace travelled to Lithuania to attend a court hearing and a demonstration with Ms Ždanoka in support of Paleckis, who was convicted of collecting information for Russian intelligence services in return for money and other benefits.

At the time, Ms Daly’s website described the trial as an example of “how espionage law is being misused in Europe and further abroad to stifle dissent”.

[crlsntss]

journal aug31

last day of aug nagisng ako ng 10 at kumain habang nagawa ng ibang gawain sa school pag tapos ay dali dali akong nag asikaso para sa laro namin ng volleyball at sinundo ako ng mga kaibigan ko dito samin para ipaalam ako na mag laro and pag tapos namin mag laro ay nanood kami ng laban ng mga kaibigan namin sa kabilang court at nanalo sila masaya ako sa tagumpay na pinag hirapan at nakuha nila kaya nmn pag tapos ng laban na yung ay kumain kami sa labas

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Youths Captured After Exciting Motor Car Chase," Ottawa Journal. October 3, 1932. Page 15. --- Police "Prowler" Car and Pursued Machine Make Some Thrilling Turns on Lindenlea Streets. --- Chased through the winding streets of Lindenlea and New Edinburgh by a police prowler car, four youths accused of stealing the automobile in which they tried to elude their pursuers were captured at 2.30 o'clock. Sunday morning and arrested on a charge of theft.

The prisoners were: Arthur Seguin, 17, of 45 Springfield road; Fernand Villeneuve, 17, of 90 Catherine street, Eastview: Gerard Cardinal, 16, of 30 Douglas avenue, and Royal Legault, 17, of 25 Durocher street.

Arraigned in Police Court this morning the quartet was remanded until tomorrow without pleading.

While patrolling the eastern sector of the city and rambling around New Edinburgh, Constables Leopold Goyette and John Cavan noticed an automobile cross Beechwood avenue. the boundary between Ottawa and Eastview, at Putman avenue, at high speed.

Put On Speed. Deciding to get close enough to take the license number, the police headed their car towards the direction the others had taken and turned into Putman avenue in pursuit. When they realized they were being followed and overtaken, the occupants of the car ahead increased the speed and darted into the labyrinth of streets in Lindenlea.

Hot in pursuit, the police saw the lights of their quarry's machine go out and realized they could not slacken their pace an instant if they were to catch up.

Around sharp bends, hair-pin twists and right angle corners, the two automobiles roared. the police car steadily gaining. After 10 minutes of dodging, swerving and mad racing. Constable Goyette guided the prowler car past and ahead of the other automobile and forced its passengers to stop at Rideau Terrace and Noel street.

Inspector of Detectives Mortimer Culver said the four boys had a number of articles in the car which they will be asked to explain. They include a loaded black-jack, nine flashlights, a wrench, two pairs of pliers. a tennis racket, a gallon jar and a length of rubber tubing smelling strongly of gasoline, and several bottles of soft drink.

Car Was Stolen. The automobile they were driving, the police said, belonged to Peter Bance, 37 Daly avenue, and was stolen from Nelson street between 9 and 10 p.m., Saturday. It was not damaged in the chase and subsequent capture.

Both Inspector Culver and Chief Inspector George McLeod were warm in their praise of the work which resulted in the arrest of the quin- tet and the recovery of the stolen car. They reiterated their belief that the prowler car system put into operation in recent months had more than justified its existence and was one of the best and most efficient means of crime prevention and detection in use. Lucien Barnabe, 642 St. Patrick street, was among the youths held last night but he was not charged, as he entered the car after it had been stolen.

[whitecatlegend]

Chapter 1 (Life is unpredictable, don’t take it to heart)

Chapter 1 || Next >>

And here we go! The first chapter of the White Cat Legend comic strips. Even though sometimes it’s referred to as Dali Temple Chronicles, I’ll be using the official English donghua title. One of the reasons is that, well, it’s the official localization (that the manhua doesn’t have), and the other is that “Dali Temple Chronicles” is not very accurate and frankly misleading.

While 寺 can be translated as “temple”, in this case its meaning is closer to “ministry”. 大理寺 actually refers to one of the Tang dynasty government agencies - the Court of Judicial Review. However, that’s quite a mouthful, so in the translations I’ll be mostly using Dali court (the term also used in the official donghua subtitles).

We meet our first protagonist! Chen Shi used to be a farmer and uses pretty informal language, including a dialect variant of “me”. It’s a little difficult to convey the exact feeling in English.

What I translated as “Hu cake” (the way it was in donghua subtitles and frankly the only way it could fit in the speech bubble) is a kind of baked flat wheat cake, often topped with sesame seeds. Very convenient food for traveling, looks like it was brought to China from the western nomadic peoples.

From here on, I’ll do my best to translate the sound effects, but I honestly couldn’t figure out what exactly that character on the second-to-last panel was, so I decided to leave it as is.

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I can’t promise to update often because real life can be a pain. But if you enjoyed the donghua, are suffering because of the hiatus and would like to see more White Cat Legend content, please give my little blog a follow!

[alix-tran]

A prince. A vice minister. But also, a cat.

[disturbingbookclub]

Slavoj Žižek bibliography

Reading Žižek – Where to Start?

❥ Ｆｒｅｅ　ｄｅｌｉｖｅｒｙ　ｗｏｒｌｄｗｉｄｅ：

Author

2018 Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

2018 Reading Marx

2017 Incontinence of the Void: Economico-Philosophical Spandrels, MIT Press

2017 The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously, Penguin Books

2017 Lenin 2017, VersoBooks

2016 Antigone, London: Bloomsbury Academic

2016 Disparities, London: Bloomsbury Academic

2016 Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours, Allen Lane

2016 The Wagnerian Sublime: Four Lacanian Readings of Classic Operas, Berlin: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

2015 Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism, Brooklyn: Melville House

2014 Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism, London: Verso, 7 October 2014

2014 Event: A Philosophical Journey Through a Concept, New York: Penguin

2014 The Most Sublime Hysteric: Hegel with Lacan, Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity Press

2014 Žižek's Jokes: (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

2013 Demanding the Impossible, Malden, MA: Polity Press

2012 The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, London: Verso

2012 Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism, London: Verso

2010 Living in the End Times, London: Verso.

2009 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce, London: Verso.

2008 Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (Big Ideas/Small Books), New York: Picador.

2008 In Defense of Lost Causes, London: Verso.

2006 How to Read Lacan, London: Granta Books (also New York: W.W. Norton & Company in 2007).

2006 The Parallax View, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

2006 Lacan: The Silent Partners, London: Verso (editor)

2006 The Universal Exception, London, New York: Continuum International Publishing Group.

2005 Interrogating the Real, London, New York: Continuum International Publishing Group.

2004 Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle, London: Verso.

2003 The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

2003 Organs Without Bodies, London: Routledge.

2002 Revolution at the Gates: Žižek on Lenin, the 1917 Writings, London: Verso.

2002 Welcome to the Desert of the Real, London: Verso.

2001 Repeating Lenin, Zagreb: Arkzin D.O.O.

2001 Opera's Second Death, London: Routledge.

2001 On Belief, London: Routledge.

2001 The Fright of Real Tears, London: British Film Institute (BFI).

2001 Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?, London: Verso.

2000 The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?, London: Verso.

2000 The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway, Washington: University of Washington Press.

1999 The Ticklish Subject, London: Verso.

1997 The Plague of Fantasies, London: Verso.

1997 The Abyss of Freedom, Michigan: University of Michigan Press.

1996 The Indivisible Remainder: Essays on Schelling and Related Matters, London: Verso.

1994 The Metastases of Enjoyment, London: Verso.

1993 Tarrying With the Negative, Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.

1992 Enjoy Your Symptom!, London: Routledge.

1991 Looking Awry, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

1991 For They Know Not What They Do, London: Verso.

1989 The Sublime Object of Ideology, London: Verso.

As co-author or editor

2014 Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj (with Nadya Tolokonnikova), London: Verso

2013 "From Myth To Symptom: the Case of Kosovo", Slavoj Žižek and Agon Hamza (Prishtina: KMD, 2013)

2013 What Does Europe Want? - The Union and its Discontents (with Srećko Horvat), London: Istros Books, 2013

2013 The Idea of Communism 2: The New York Conference, London: Verso (editor)

2012 God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse, with Boris Gunjević, New York: Seven Stories Press

2011 Hegel and the Infinite: Religion, Politics, and Dialectic, New York: Columbia University Press (edited by Clayton Crockett, Slavoj Žižek, Creston Davis. Preface and chapter 12 written by Žižek)

2010 Philosophy in the Present, Polity (with Alain Badiou).

2010 Paul's New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology, Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press (with Creston Davis and John Milbank)

2010 The Idea of Communism, London: Verso (Texts from "The Idea of Communism" conference, 2009, edited by Žižek and Costas Douzinas)

2009 Mythology, Madness and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism, Continuum (with Markus Gabriel).

2009 The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (with Creston Davis and John Milbank)

2007 On Practice and Contradiction, London: Verso (Selected texts of Mao Zedong with introduction by Žižek).

2007 Terrorism and Communism, London: Verso (Selected texts of Leon Trotsky with introduction by Žižek).

2007 Virtue and Terror, London: Verso (Selected texts of Robespierre with introduction by Žižek).

2006 Neighbors and Other Monsters (in The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology), Cambridge, Massachusetts: University of Chicago Press.

2004 Conversations with Žižek, Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly, London: Polity Press.

2001 The Fright of Real Tears: Krzystof Kieslowski between Theory and Post-Theory, London: British Film Institute.

2000 Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (authored with Judith Butler and Ernesto Laclau), London: Verso.

1998 Cogito and the Unconscious: Sic 2, Duke university press.

1993 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan... But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock, London: Verso (editor)

1990 Beyond Discourse Analysis (a part in Ernesto Laclau's New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time), London: Verso.

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1994, The Making of Political Identities

2000, Jacques Ranciere: The Politics of Aesthetics

2001, Nietzsche: Revenge and Praise (Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy)

2002, Georg Lukács: A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic

2002, Lacan & Science

2002, Reading Seminar XX: Lacan’s Major Work on Love, Knowledge, and Feminine Sexuality

2004, Think Again: Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy

2004, Transcendence: Philosophy, Literature, and Theology Approach the Beyond

2004, Polygraph 15/16: Immanence, Transcendence, and Utopia

2004, Hitchcock: Past and Future

2005, Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive

2007, Adventures in Realism

2009, Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader

2009, Cultures of Fear

2010, Paul’s New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology

2010, Alain Badiou: Five Lessons on Wagner

2010, The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism

2011, The Chinese Perspective on Žižek and Žižek′s Perspective on China

2011, Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America

2011, Hegel & The Infinite

2011, Democracy in What State?

2011, What Does a Jew Want? On Binationalism and Other Specters

2012, The Case for Sanctions Against Israel

2012, Hegel’s Rabble: An Investigation Into Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

2012, Concept and Form (Cahiers pour l’Analyse)

2013, Penumbr(a)

2013, Biopolitics: A Reader

2013, Žižek Now: Current Perspectives in Žižek Studies

2014, Žižek’s Jokes

2015, The Slovene re-actualization of Hegel’s philosophy

2016, Slavoj Žižek and Dialectical Materialism

2016, Sex and Nothing: Bridges from Psychoanalysis to Philosophy

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2003, Slavoj Zizek, Tony Myers: Routledge Critical Thinkers

2004, Glyn Daly: Conversations With Žižek

2004, Slavoj Zizek: Ian Parker: A Critical Introduction

2004, Matthew Sharpe: A Little Piece of the Real

2005, Rex Butler: Live Theory

2005, Geoff Boucher, Jason Glynos, Matthew Sharpe: Traversing the Fantasy

2006, Jodi Dean: Žižek’s Politics

2007, Fabio Vighi & Heiko Feldner: Žižek – Beyond Foucault

2008, Adam Kotsko: Žižek and Theology

2008, Adrian Johnston: Žižek’s Ontology

2008, Marcus Pound: A (Very) Critical Introduction

2008, Thomas Brockelman: Žižek and Heidegger

2009, Adrian Johnston: Badiou, Žižek, and Political Transformations

2009, Geoff Boucher: The Charmed Circle of Ideology

2010, Fabio Vighi: On Žižek’s Dialectics

2010, Matthew Sharpe & Geoff Boucher: Žižek and Politics: A Critical Introduction

2011, Introducing Slavoj Žižek: A Graphic Guide

2014, Žižek and His Contemporaries: On the Emergence of the Slovenian Lacan

2014, The Žižek Dictionary

2015, Žižek and Law

2018, Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture by Clint Burnham

2018, The Reception of Paul the Apostle in the Works of Slavoj Žižek by Ole Jakob Løland

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1995, Miran Božovič: The Panopticon Writings

1998, Alain Grosrichard: The Sultan’s Court

1998, Renata Salecl: Perversions of Love and Hate

2000, Alenka Zupančič: Ethics of the Real

2001, Alain Badiou: Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

Short Circuits

2003, Alenka Zupančič: The Shortest Shadow

2005, Jerry Aline Flieger: Is Oedipus Online?

2005, Alexei Monroe: Interrogation Machine

2006, Mladen Dolar: A Voice and Nothing More

2007, Lorenzo Chiesa: Subjectivity and Otherness

2008, Alenka Zupančič: The Odd One In

2009, André Nusselder: Interface Fantasy

2009, Henry Bond: Lacan at the Scene

2010, Anca Parvulescu: Laughter

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1996, Gaze and Voice as Love Objects [sic1]

1998, Cogito and the Unconscious [sic2]

2000, Sexuation [sic3]

2003, Perversion and the Social Relation [sic4]

2005, Theology and the Political: The New Debate [sic5]

2006, Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis [sic6]

2007, Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth [sic7]

2013, The Privatization of Hope: Ernst Bloch and the Future of Utopia [sic8]

2015, Repeating Žižek [sic9]

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A Tale of Two Jeffreys: How the Virgin Islands Welcomed a Rich Sex Offender—and Punished a Poor One

https://news.yahoo.com/tale-two-jeffreys-virgin-islands-100129832.html

A Tale of Two Jeffreys: How the Virgin Islands Welcomed a Rich Sex Offender—and Punished a Poor One

By Michael Daly, Special Correspondent | Published 07.28.19, 6:01AM ET | Daily Beast | Posted July 28, 2019 |

From the Virgin Islands comes a tale of two Jeffreys, and the difference great wealth can make when it comes to sex crimes—until it doesn't.

Both Jeffreys were convicted of shameful crimes that required them to register as sex offenders in whatever state or jurisdiction they resided.

Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida to engaging a minor in prostitution in a 2007 plea deal only a super-rich guy could have swung. He did 18 months locked up, mostly in a private wing of the Palm Beach County jail, where he only stayed at night, returning each morning to “work release.”

He then proceeded to prove that a registered sex offender with enough money in the Virgin Islands can just continue to come and go from a private island off the coast of St. Thomas, with an ever-changing entourage of girls who appeared to be barely in their teens. He would announce his periodic return by raising the American flag over the opulent hideaway identified on the maps as Little Saint James Island, but known to locals as “pedophile island.”

Jeffrey No. 2—Jeffery Cole—was convicted in Ohio of a misdemeanor charge of voyeurism in 2009. He was a schlub of modest means, but his offense was relatively minor (if creepy) and he needed neither wealth nor influence to receive just a suspended sentence of 90 days and two years probation.

“The underlying conviction, which requires Mr. Cole to register as a sex offender, did not involve a minor, physical violence, or physical touching of any kind,” his present attorney, Melanie Turnbull, noted in court.

We Found Red Flags All Over Jeffrey Epstein’s Jail Records

Once he successfully completed probation, Cole moved to Georgia, where he registered as a sex offender. He moved to the Virgin Islands in 2018 and has not been charged with engaging in further voyeurism or any other crimes.

The problem for this Jeffrey was that he failed to register promptly in his new home as a sex offender. The U.S. Attorney for the Virgin Islands, Gretchen Shappert, did not miss an opportunity to convey through the media how seriously her office takes such matters.

“USVI resident indicted for not registering as sex offender,” the headline in a local news outlet read.

That February 28th article was accompanied by a photo illustration that showed a parked auto with a driver-side front door emblazoned with the words “SEX OFFENDER In This Car.” It also pictured a house with a sign out front reading, ”SEX OFFENDER LIVES HERE.”

On April 12, Cole entered into a  plea deal where he faces a sentence of no more than a year.

“St. Thomas Resident Pleaded Guilty to Failing to Register as a Sex Offender,” the U.S. Attorney’s press release announced.

In the meantime, on March 15, the other Jeffrey flew into St. Thomas aboard his private jet. He made his annual check-in at the local sex registry office, a gesture that can now be seen as a kind of mockery, as it’s been revealed that he had been seen still bringing young girls to his private island.

“Everybody was like, ‘Oh, yeah, that’s pedophile island,’” remembers a Wall Street numbers cruncher turned pizzeria owner who arrived in the Virgin Islands from New York in 2009.

Where were the authorities when it came to this Jeffrey?

Epstein’s Coney Island Days: From Math Nerd to ‘Arrogant’ Prick

At least four members of the local legislature accepted significant campaign contributions from Southern Trust Company, Inc., one of a host of business entities Epstein founded in the Virgin Islands. Those companies began with L.S.J, LLC, through which he bought his private island for $7.95 million in 1998.

Epstein had hired Cecile de Jongh, wife of former Virgin Islands Gov. John de Jongh, as the office manager for Southern Trust, which was granted income tax breaks of up to 90 percent by the U.S. Virgin Islands Economic Development Authority. The former first lady also managed the Epstein VI Foundation, which supported everything from brain research at Harvard to the girls’ volleyball team at St. Croix Central High School in the Virgin Islands.

After Epstein was arrested in Florida for a sex crime involving a minor, a Virgin Islands newspaper called The Avis ran an article suggesting that Cecile de Jongh’s connections with Epstein might muddy her husband’s political prospects. The Avis also noted that the arrest called into question whether the girls’ volleyball team should have jerseys bearing the name Epstein.

A purported grassroots movement collected 5,000 signatures on a petition accusing The Avis of yellow journalism. Epstein attorney Gerald Lefcourt issued a statement saying, “The grand jury and the prosecutor's office... determined that no serious offense had occurred.”

Really.

Epstein kept partying on Pedophile Island. He is said to have met some resistance when he sought to buy the nearby, larger island of Great St James. The blue-blood Danish family that owned it is said to have been reluctant to sell to someone with Epstein’s unsavory reputation. But he appears to have managed to acquire it anyway in 2016 by cloaking the buyer’s identity with a company called Great St. Jim LLC. He is said to have paid $18 million.

Epstein immediately applied for a permit to erect two 80-foot flag poles, arguing that the 45-foot limit on the books should not apply to his property. No doubt at least one of the poles would be used to fly an American flag and announce for everyone to see when the owner of Pedophile Island was back.

But construction of a compound on the bigger island was delayed by environmental concerns that even somebody as well-connected as Epstein could not just circumvent.

And there was far greater trouble brewing for Epstein as the result of a determined reporter, Julie Brown of the Miami Herald.

Brown revealed and documented the unconscionable plea deal Epstein had been granted. The Manhattan U.S. Attorney launched a new investigation. 

In reviewing the 2007 Florida case, the FBI noted a court document reporting an incident that when agents served Epstein’s personal assistant Lesley Groff with a grand jury subpoena, she excused herself, purportedly to check on her child. She is said by the court document to have used the moment to telephone Epstein, who was headed in his private plane from Palm Beach to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey across the Hudson River from New York. He was in the company of another assistant, Nadia Marcinkova, who has been accused of complicity in his sex trafficking.

“Mr. Epstein became concerned that the FBI would try to serve his traveling companion, Nadia Marcinkova, with a similar grand jury subpoena,” the document reports. “In fact, the agents were preparing to serve Ms. Marcinkova with a target letter when the flight landed in Teterboro. Mr. Epstein then redirected his airplane, making the pilot file a new flight plan to travel to the US Virgin Islands instead.”

The American flag no doubt again went up over Pedophile Island as the FBI stood thwarted at Teterboro. 

A dozen years later, the FBI took great care that Epstein received no warning. He flew unsuspecting on July 6 from Paris to Teterboro and a waiting pair of handcuffs.

On July 8, Epstein was arraigned in Manhattan federal court on charges of trafficking in underage girls. He was remanded as a flight risk and a danger to the community. He was consigned to the Metropolitan Correctional Center, briefly in general population but within hours assigned to the Special Housing Unit due to threats from inmates who apparently take a dim view of “short eyes,” as child molesters are known behind bars.

Epstein must have considered the arrest a possibility, for some time ago he commissioned an artist to paint a mural in his Manhattan mansion of him in a prison yard. Neither he nor the artist seem to have foreseen that he would find himself locked up 23 hours a day in an eight-by-eight foot cell infested with cockroaches and rodents. A thickly screened single narrow window faces a brick wall and lets in only enough light to tell night from day. Mold is said to grow on the walls. Water seeps in under the door from a shower to which he has access only once every three days.

For two weeks, Epstein’s cellmate was an ex-cop named Nicholas Tartaglione, who is accused of a quadruple murder. Tartaglione says the two became “friends,” whereby he joined a list that once included two presidents, Donald Trump and Bill Clinton. A realtor who asked not to be identified recently told The Daily Beast that Trump exclaimed at a business gathering at Tavern on the Green some years ago that Epstein was “my best friend.”

Tartaglione has reportedly told authorities that he saved Epstein from a suicide attempt. But Trump may not be the only liar on Epstein's list of pals. Tartaglione ended up in the Special Housing Unit after he was caught with a cellphone that he insisted had just been given to him by another inmate. Tartaglione then moved to keep the government from inspecting the phone’s contents on the grounds it may have privileged communications with his lawyer and with his wife. Never mind it was supposedly not his.

Epstein is now said to be on suicide watch. He is 66 and, if convicted, he stands a good chance of dying in prison even if he takes the best possible care of himself. He may have finally landed in a situation where all his money cannot save him from suffering the consequences of his actions.

Also behind bars is the other Jeffrey, having been remanded when he entered his guilty plea in April.

Cole had been free on his own recognizance since his arraignment, the court having deemed him to be neither a flight risk nor a danger to the community. His attorney petitioned for him to remain at liberty pending sentencing, which is set for August 15.

The attorney noted that Cole is a 57-year-old graduate of Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in landscape architecture, had been steadily employed for more than 30 years and was presently a fleet manager at a car rental company. He would be able to continue working there until his day of reckoning.

The judge remanded Cole nonetheless. Cole was shipped off to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. His attorney has since filed a motion to expedite matters.

“The current sentencing date inevitably results in a period of incarceration of four months,” the petition noted, adding that Cole was eligible to receive probation and no time at all.

As of Saturday, the sentencing was still set for August 15. Cole remains behind bars in Guaynabo. But he will almost certainly be free within the next few months.

And you can bet that this Jeffrey would not trade places with the other one for all the money in the world

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Kenya Moore Claims Ex Marc Daly Did not See Child For six Months

Kenya Moore has motive to consider her estranged husband, Marc Daly, may quickly come for her funds. Whereas providing an replace on her divorce after the conclusion of the 14th season of The Actual Housewives of Atlanta, Kenya revealed Marc’s lawyer has filed a movement, requesting that she flip over her monetary statements. “Why are you asking for them?” Kenya puzzled on the September 26 episode of the RHOA: After Present. “As a result of if it’s about youngster assist, simply inform me what you wanna pay. I’m not gonna undergo court docket for that. In the event you obtained hit by COVID and it’s a must to pay much less, simply inform me that. It’s nice.” In accordance with Kenya, Marc has by no means needed to barter youngster assist along with her and has constantly refused to inform her what he desires to pay to assist assist their 3-year-old daughter, Brooklyn, which is why she suspects he might be getting ready to file for assist from her. “If it’s not about alimony, why are you asking for my monetary paperwork?” she added. “We predict he’s going to be asking for one thing from me as a result of there’s no motive to dig into what I make when that is about what you possibly can pay to your youngster.” Persevering with on about her divorce, Kenya stated it’s a “sh-t present.” “I shouldn’t need to be dragged within the mud only for me to divorce you from a person who stated he doesn’t need something ought to we ever divorce, he would simply rebuild it,” she famous. And searching again at her choice to forgo a prenuptial settlement, Kenya admitted to being a “idiot.” “I stated to everybody dwelling, ‘It is best to all the time get a prenup.’ And I didn’t,” she confessed. “I let him speak me out of a prenup. And I do know I’m going to win that half as a result of clearly everybody is aware of I had my house earlier than, but it surely’s what I made whereas being with him, however I simply don’t perceive, what’s the want that you’ve got the place you’d even really feel entitled to any cash that I made? You’re an able-bodied, extremely educated, profitable entrepreneur, why are you even asking about my financials?” Kenya additionally stated that it’s she who’s Brooklyn’s main mother or father, including that Marc has gone months with out a lot as a go to. “I care for Brooklyn full time, and it’s been… Earlier than final month it was six months earlier than he noticed her,” she revealed. The Actual Housewives of Atlanta season 15 will reportedly start filming subsequent week. Originally published at Sacramento News Journal

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 The Western Cape High Court has dominated that President Cyril Ramaphosa’s resolution to droop Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, after she despatched him questions in regards to the Phala Phala break-in, was invalid and “improper”.In a ruling delivered on Friday, the courtroom discovered that “from the objective facts, the decision of [Mkhwebane] to investigate the president and to put 31 questions to him, prompted the president not to wait a day more and to immediately suspend her”. “Clearly, when the events that unfolded between the 7-10 June 2022, discussed above, are objectively examined, it is irresistible to conclude that the decision of the president was improper."READ | Phala Phala: Mystery Sudanese businessman paid $580 000 to Ramaphosa's farmhand 45 days before theftIn the immediate aftermath of the court’s ruling, which Mkhwebane’s advocate Dali Mpofu SC announced to the Section 194 committee investigating her fitness to hold office, lawyers for the Democratic Alliance wrote to the Public Protector’s attorneys to seek her assurance that she intended to approach the apex court for confirmation of the High Court ruling.“To avoid any confusion, we draw your attention to section 172(2)(a) of the Constitution. It provides that: "(2)(a) The ... a High Court of South Africa ... may make an order concerning the constitutional validity of ... any conduct of the president, but an order of constitutional invalidity has no force unless it is confirmed by the Constitutional Court,” the DA’s attorneys said.“The High Court order subsequently has no impact except and till confirmed by the Constitutional Court." Ramaphosa's office noted the ruling on Friday and said "the Presidency will search steering from the Constitution on the following steps".  We dwell in a world the place info and fiction get blurred In occasions of uncertainty you want journalism you'll be able to belief. For 14 free days, you'll be able to have entry to a world of in-depth analyses, investigative journalism, prime opinions and a spread of options. Journalism strengthens democracy. Invest sooner or later in the present day. Thereafter you may be billed R75 monthly. You can cancel anytime and when you cancel inside 14 days you will not be billed.  [ad_2] Source link

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"Ottawa Lawyer Gets Five Year For Fraud," Ottawa Journal. June 23, 1942. Page 22. ---- Hubert Pothier, 41, Ottawa lawyer, was sentenced to five yearsin Kingston penitentiary Mondaafternoon by Judge Daly in countycourt when he pleaded guilty tofour charges of false pretences andfour of converting funds to his own use. He was given five years on each charge, the sentences to run concurrently.

Pothier pleaded guilty to the following charges: False pretences, $1,696 from Mare Marchessault; $2,050 from Emile Briere; $500 Ernest Lattion; $300 from Helen Wahab; conversion of funds, $325 from Adrien Provost: $500 from Eli Joseph; $2,500, John Horishny: $3,400, Florian St. Jacques and Ida Potvin. The charges arose out of real estate transactions from 1939 to 1941.

"This is a most unfortunate and deplorable case, and I need not say that it is a most painful duty which has been cast to me or on any other member of the Bench, who is called upon to deal in a criminal way with a member of the Bar", said Judge Dály in addressing the court.

"The facts show very gross breaches of trust on the part of the accused. It is not like the ordinary case of a man stealing where a return of the money could be made. It might have been more honorable if you had put your hand in your clients' pocket and taken the money, but under confidential relations which existed between yourself and your clients, you have grossly deceived them and in consequence of your delinquency, probably the life savings of these people have been lost.

"It is a terrible reflection upon the honor of the legal profession which in this country has always enjoyed an excellent reputation."Now apparently there is nothing to condone the offences, to which you have pleaded guilty. The policy of the law is not to be vindictive or extreme but to be useful and to make the punishment fit the crime. These are charges against a man who was a member of the honorable profession and that profession must be vindicated in some way. The public must not get the idea that men who are in positions of trust can, with impunity, steal from those who are in confidential relations with them.

"After the best consideration I have been able to give these matters, I think I am taking a lenient view of the very serious nature of the offenses", he concluded, before meting sentence.

W. F. Schroeder, counsel for the accused, referred to Pothier as a man of good parents and himself having a good background. Until recently he had committed no crime but now the profession was shocked.

Had One Weakness. "He had one weakness, playing the stock market", said Mr. Schroeder. "Prior to 1929 Mr. Pothier had played the market with some success. In 1934 the urge came back to him and he was dragged into it by people who+ didn't mean well. He tried to make good after losses and succumbed to temptation. He has asked me to tell the court that he is ready to face the sentence and upon his return to society will endeavor to make full restitution."

Crown Attorney Mercier said. it was a sad duty to perform against a former member of the profession, who had been a bright student and held in highest esteem. "We feel our profession is being put to shame but we are entrusted with worldly goods and people's wealth and they must feel that when dealing with lawyers everything will be conducted in an honest way."

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Sentence Reduced for Convicted Murderer Serving Life in Prison

Arthur Longworth Author Headshot (Third Place Books)

Snohomish County – Convicted for the murder of Cynthia Nelson, Arthur Longworth’s original life in prison without parole sentencing has been reduced to 30 years. After serving 37 years, Longworth appeared in court at the Snohomish County Superior Court Tuesday, February 15th when the reduction was announced. After testimonies from Nelson's family, a psychologist, a former state representative, and a current sitting state cabinet secretary, Superior Court Judge Anna Alexander concluded that Longworth came before the court as a “changed man” (Goldstein-Street, 2022).

Longworth was convicted for the murder of Cynthia Nelson in 1985 after attempting to rob her and then stabbing her in her back when she resisted. He then drove and disposed of her body at The Little Pilchuck Creek not far from the hub of central Lake Stevens, WA in Snohomish County (Goldstein-Street, 2022).

About 11 minutes from The Little Pilchuck, Seattle Sun Tan Lake Stevens salon manager and community member Mollie Rattaree shared her perspective on the reduction of Longworth's sentencing saying, "Even though it's scary to think about what he did and how close it is to home, it sounds like he’s changed. I guess that’s the ideal outcome of imprisonment, you reflect on the crimes you commit and you either show you’ve changed or stay confined. I didn’t even know that happened here, I don’t think many people I know would recognize that name.”

After being incarcerated in 1985, Longworth received several infractions within the first decade of his imprisonment including violations for theft, lying to facility staff, possession of a weapon, and threatening assault. It was noted in the courtroom on Tuesday, February 15th that after he was married in 1994, his conduct improved and he began writing as well as studying Mandarin and Spanish. Longworth is also now a Spanish translator for the Department of Corrections and a teaching assistant for English as a second languages classes in prison. Longworth has also instructed university-level Spanish courses (Longworth, 2022).

Arthur Longworth's 1985 Mugshot (Everett Herald)

Longworth has since become an acclaimed author and writer while being incarcerated. He has published two books, written for organizations such as VICE News and Yes! Magazine amongst other literary journals and his writings have been used in the curriculum of courses at Santa Clara University, University of Washington, and the University of Texas (Longworth, 2022).

Ester Stanton-Daly, a former Biology professor at the University of Tennessee and current Animal Science teacher at Monroe High School, said, "I believe that people deserve second chances especially when they show up and do the work it takes to actually show their growth. I know that some of my students get in trouble because of circumstances like the ones he was in at their age. I'm glad he's doing the time and I'm glad the victim's family got an apology". When asked if she would ever use the writing of a formerly convicted murderer for her courses at the University of Tennessee, Stanton-Daly said, "It depends on if it would be beneficial for the course objectives. I don't know what he writes about, but I wouldn't deny someone's academic value based on their past."

Longworth is set to be released from Monroe Correctional Complex in 2052 with 5 years of parole. Court papers state that Longworth plans to live on a ranch in northeastern Washington that he bought with $750,000 that he won in a lawsuit regarding abuse that he endured as a child in the foster system where he wants to start a nature therapy program with his sister Regina (Goldstein-Street, 2022).

Citations

Arthur Longworth. (n.d.). Retrieved February 19, 2022, from https://www.arthurlongworth.com/

Goldstein-Street, J. (2022, February 16). From a life sentence for a 1985 murder to imminent freedom. HeraldNet.com. Retrieved February 19, 2022, from https://www.heraldnet.com/news/from-a-life-sentence-for-a-1985-murder-to-imminent-freedom/

Zek : An American prison story by Arthur Longworth. Third Place Books. (n.d.). Retrieved February 19, 2022, from https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/zek-american-prison-story-arthur-longworth

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