title: Reason and Imagination: The Selected Correspondence of Learned Hand
author: Constance Jordan
description: <br>"...[<em>Reason and Imagination</em>] traces Hand's intellectual journey through the words of Hand himself and those of his correspondents, especially his friends Felix Frankfurter and Walter Lippmann...the letters in <em>Reason and Imagination</em> offer a narrative arc: Hand adopted a firm philosophy of judicial restraint early in life, as a means toward progressive political ends-and stuck with the philosophy, as the years passed, as an end in itself." --Adam J. White, <em>Wall Street Journal</em>
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  “YOU ALL RIGHT?” VIGHOLF ASKED.
  
  
  Rhona nodded. “The universe began to spin, so I decided to sit until it
  stopped.”
  
  
  “Good plan.”
  
  
  Since he didn’t know how long she’d need to sit, Vigholf sat beside her. He
  carefully took her raised finger and tucked it back into her fist.
  
  
  “Thank you. I didn’t seem to have control of that talon.”
  
  
  “Finger.”
  
  
  “Whatever.” She smiled a little. “You can let go of my hand.”
  
  
  “I could, but probably won’t. What with your universe spinning and all.”
  
  
  “Any opportunity. You Lightnings take any opportunity.”
  
  
  “There’s truth to that, I’m afraid.”
  
  
  “You are, however, surprisingly light of touch.”
  
  
  “Pardon?”
  
  
  “The way you’re holding my hand. I always thought you’d be more of a mauler.
  Like a diseased wolf chewing the knuckles off me fist.”
  
  
  “That’s very nice.”
  
  
  “Not really.”
  
  
  “I was being sarcastic.”
  
  
  “Oh. I see.” Rhona gazed off for a moment, then asked, “Where are we?”
  
  
  “Okay. That’s it. I’m taking you to bed . . .”
  
  
  
  
  
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