Wonder what his sentence would have been if he had been black and unfamous. Or just unfamous.
42 days. Just over a month.
His fashionable amorality -- as expressed in his work -- was always slightly nauseating. There was always the frisson of his childhood, of his wife's murder...but this is not a man who ever had anything to say about justice or freedom or conscience. He was just another east european who figured out how to get the most out of his "suffering" without doing anything about anybody else's suffering.
joanna