Does anyone still think journalists aren’t creative writers? Take a look at this brilliantly concise character sketch:
The rumpled scholar sat discussing the dispute on a recent afternoon in his high-ceilinged living room, which was crowded with books and his paintings. A parrot named Ike provided the occasional squawk, and sunlight streamed over the 400 pipes of an organ that his older son, Daniel, bought and rebuilt by hand after discovering it, unused, in the basement of Yale’s Woolsey Hall. On Professor Gelernter’s desk sat a large-screen iMac.
via Pursuing a Piracy Claim Against Apple – US Business – CNBC.
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