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I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

"An affirmation is always the affirmation of something, which is to say that the act of affirming is distinct from the thing affirmed. But if we imagined an affirmation in which the affirming is filled up by what is affirmed, that affirmation could not be affirmed - because of the surfeit of plenitude and the noema's immediate inherence within the noesis."

"I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it."

We went from how opening envelops was a crime to straight up murder. This book keeps surprising me as if the appearance of a past lover straight out of nowhere but there.

This book went from "Let's take arms against the government" to "I'm going to break this candle wax seal because I'm a bad boy"

We moving light speed reading this book, faster than me getting over a past lover.

“Burying with Pomp” = “Ostentatious Ceremonial Funeral Display”

If I die, I’m making it everyone’s problem by blasting my funeral playlist with an accompanying Mad Max: Fury Road esque float with a Doof blasting flames off a makeshift flamethrower.

Crimes against the State this, crimes against the State that. What about world peace????

Anti-climatic for today’s standards, but neither the less an iconic storyline for comics.

I see where this book is going. Intrigued, if not elated, that this book exists.

Heavy book. After the part with Aggravating circumstances, it's almost like a calm sigh. Signaling, that the heavy stuff was over - for now.

I forgot how much the X-men were swingers.

I'm currently on Article 14 Paragraph 12, and something hit me while I was reading. Does the act of a suicide bomber belong within the confines of article 11? When you consider that some act on the promise of an ideological or religious persuasion. Or does it fall more into Article 12 of that matter?

Out of all the law books that I have the privilege to read. This has got to be my favorite.

After a brief hiatus, I’m finally back to reading this one. Just finished the one with the Beetle. Daredevil over here doing flips like he’s part of the Cirque du Soleli.

94 pages in, and they haven’t kissed yet.

Out of the short - but brazenly fantastic - run of Romita Sr. and stepping into the Colan run. I got to say, the art is something else.

John Romita, you son of a gun. Slowly drifting away from the soap drama-esque office romance between the three, and more focus on Daredevil and his athletic like abilities, and as a crime fighter that works with the law - finally establishing that characteristic that modern iterations have followed suit.

Goodbye, Wally Wood. Your run will be remembered. The way I draw Daredevil is solely because of you. Now, entering Romita territory, and I'm still partial to the fact that he belongs solely to Spider-Man titles. But, we'll see.

Wally Wood 'Red Suit' era in play. Things are picking up in pace, and Daredevil's overall character is fundamentally taking shape as we speak. Outside of the undeniably campy 60s allure to the current issues, I can't help but deny how creative this book is - both in practice and on paper. From the environment, to the legal stuff, to the quips. Great.

Silver age Daredevil is literally a 60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon in the making. It's so funny to think that 10 to 20 years down the line, only till then we'd have the Daredevil that we know of today.