
I used to collect quotations. I collected thousands of them on index cards. I thought I would pull out quotations from my short story collection, Conundrums: Stories of Law & Justice, and write about them.
Every institution has its own personality and language.
Some speak through mission statements.
Others speak through silence.
Prisons teach a different lesson. Privacy is nonexistent. Rumor runs rampant. Every action echoes through prison time, and beyond. Yet the deepest irony is that while almost nothing remains hidden inside, so much about life behind the walls remains invisible to the public.
This sentence, and the title of one of the short stories, asks a larger question than it first appears.
What happens to human dignity when privacy disappears?
The Conundrums Quotations Project
CQ-001
— Easy Waters
Conundrums: Stories of Law & Justice
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