... to click on yesterday's picture to enlarge it, you'll get a sense of the impersonal quality of the building that now houses a part of the Los Angeles County Superior Court. You'd find the same driving down into one of the most claustrophobic underground parking lots I know, and traveling up the elevators to the fifteenth floor and down the corridors lined with concrete (!) benches--cold to the human posterior--to the courtroom.
Yesterday, mid-afternoon, we had a noticeable aftershock from the earthquake of the day before. The building swayed. Up there on the fifteenth floor, it was momentarily dizzying, the effect of being on an ocean liner, disconnected from terra firma. Our judge had a quiet chuckle, and we all got back to work...
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I cannot imagine what it would be like to experience an earthquake in a building like that, and on the 15th floor. Oy. I can get a bit queasy just thinking about it. It does like a hugely impersonal building. I guess it will help jurists maintain their impartiality. You know how a warm sunny open space makes you forget justice. Hah.
Whoops that supposed to say, It does look like..."
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