Dada 152

He said he had studied me closely and that he had found a blank towards those deep and inner feelings that normal people possess. There was no depth to me, no examined life, no feeling for my actions; none of those moral qualities that normal people possess that were demonstrated in my character. No doubt he added we should not blame him for this, he is a poor fish dock worker, who possesses a roof only because of the generosity of the grandfather. We cannot blame a man for lacking what was never in his power to acquire. But in this criminal court any passive aggression must be tested to a series of higher principle, of loftier ideals, to the rule of law and Justice. Gone was the fact that I was intelligent.Now I was just a poor worker down on the dock.. My mother stared impassively ahead. Once my hers eyes strayed in my direction but for the most part she sat erect besides the woman in blue and dabbed occasionally at her face. ‘This man before you is a menace to society because in his own eyes he has done nothing wrong. He has enjoyed himself and now stands before you for something he has done by ‘chance’ The prosecutor spoke again at the great length of my crime. He quoted Russian novelists in the way I had pursued my victims. ‘This man is a menace to our society ‘he repeated again.