October 16. To court with J. We had flown back from Sweden fifteen hours earlier than usual so we’d make this hearing. The defendant, as expected, does not show up. The judge can rule like a queen, and she rules that there will be another hearing in two months, and if he does not show up to that hearing, he will be brought to another hearing in handcuffs. – I am confused not only by the geological timescale, but by the arbitrariness of it. I would expect the law to function like a clockwork, where any action triggers a clearly defined response, all in a matter of days. Instead, we enter a bizarre world of laws which works according to its own laws.