Status Updates From Pockets: An Intimate Histor...

Hostile encounters between state and citizen are routinely preceded by the expression "Put your hands where I can see them!" We count on pockets even in despair, as when Virginia Woolf, before she waded into the fast-running River Ouse, weighed down her pockets with river stones to ensure her drowning.

[WTactualF is this passage - I hate academic humor & its abstraction of death & suffering as impossibly far away]