I saw Patterson wear a leather jacket last night. Why? He has a summer cold.
I was conducting an Speaker's Corner Sunday afternoon that was briefly interrupted by a fight just outside the main floor window of the classroom I was in. The building, our school is in, is beside a little park and also has a courtyard of sorts with benches on the other side. Both these areas attract loiterers. One particular person who is homeless and mentally deranged has been lurking in both places for a month. He may have one time tried to enter the school but he is harmless. He was involved in a fight just beside where I was doing Speakers' Corner. Another man, possibly another street person, had grabbed and twisted his arm so that he was screaming in pain for two or three minutes. I had to look through the shades of the class room I was in to see the fight. The students on seeing this laughed. Theirs laughs were a little embarrassed and uneasy but they seemed mostly to be the laughs of people directed at others' misfortunes. That is what torture is like I told the students. I continued on with my SPC and a few minutes later looked out the window to see the victim of the arm-twisting throwing bricks, left over from last year's construction of the park, at his tormentor.
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