The Legal Kaffeeklatsch

  MUSINGS: When the Internet died during Hurricane Laura   Without the Internet—surprise!—much that one takes for granted in everyday life goes swoosh. The major things are obvious, but it’s the small, niggling things that come as a shock. Like…I wanted to write this on my computer where I have the choice of Word, Pages, and Google docs. But I can’t! All of these programs are online, and I am not! To the rescue? Text Edit, that long forgotten remnant of a prior age, but (thank you, Apple) still available and perfectly functional.   Why did I want to write? Well, I am tired of the hesitant, stuttering connectivity of weak cellular networks delivering (or not) tweets and texts and maybe email. I want something that has flow! A few minutes ago, my eye fell on Elias Canetti’s, The Voices of Marrakesh ; I’d pulled it off the shelf to reread the opening story, Encounters with Camels , deeply and powerfully disturbing each and every time. But this time it put me in mind of somet...