Powers: Discovery

By R. Richard

I am then frog marched to an apartment. Despite a winning Court decision, I really don’t have first and last months rent, plus security deposit. However, it seems that the school runs the apartment and I just need to pay the rent. (The school now decides if I have a place to live. Lease? ‘We don’t got to cho you no steenking lease.’)
I settle in, do my English class reading assignment and prepare to go to my classes, in the morning.
My first class, in the morning is English.
The teacher asks me, “James Gann, did you do your reading assignment?”
I reply, “Yes, I read the entire play, ‘The Merchant of Venice.’”
The teacher then asks, “What did you think of the play?”
I reply, “A group of Venetian layabouts punish a Jewish man, via a sham trial.”
The teacher then snarls, “What did you think of the way that the play was written?”
I reply, “A group of Venetian layabouts make casuist speeches and even the Jewish man makes a casuist speech. I suspect that the author of ‘The Merchant of Venice’ was at least borderline insane.”
The teacher then snarls, “The play is supposed to be about emotions.”
I reply, “I prefer things more grounded in reality, vice emotion.”
The teacher then snarls, “To understand the play, you need to analyze the emotions.”
I reply, “The Venetian layabouts don’t appear to have jobs. However, in order to run their wastrel lives, the layabouts need money. In order to obtain the money that they need, they borrow from the Jew, Shylock, or, in the case of Shylock’s daughter steal the money that she needs, from Shylock. The first question that comes to my mind is why did the layabouts not borrow the money that they need from a non Jewish Venetian?”
The teacher then snarls, “The Merchant of Venice has his money tied up in imports that are due to arrive by ship. Thus he cannot lend his friend Bassanio the money that Bassanio needs.”
I reply, “The Venetian layabouts used Ducats, gold Ducats. They might have considered getting jobs, instead of borrowing money. However, in order to support the layabouts, workman’s wages were probably at the level of a silver Venetian Soldi per day, where a silver Venetian Soldi was worth 124th of a Venetian gold Ducat. The Venetians probably needed to under pay workers, to support the noble layabouts. If sailors were paid worker’s wages, that might have been a reason why the Merchant of Venice was waiting on the arrival of his ships.”
The teacher then snarls, “The Merchant of Venice has his money tied up in imports that are due to arrive by ship. There is no need to worry about details of Venetian money.”
I reply, “Of course not. The Merchant of Venice scolds Shylock for charging interest on the loans that Shylock makes. Of course, the interest the Shylock charges on the loans that Shylock makes is just about the only way that Shylock can make a decent living. Obviously Shakespeare didn’t like Jews.”
The teacher then snarls, “The Merchant of Venice and for that matter, Shakespeare, were men of their time. The views of the men of that time were biased against Jews.”
I counter attack, “Shakespeare didn’t like Jews and he also makes a sly hit against the Prince of Morocco, obviously an unworthy person, because of the color of his skin. How can you stand to think that way?”
The teacher then snarls, “The attitudes of the Merchant of Venice and for that matter, Shakespeare, are not my attitudes, but attitudes of men of their time. Your views are insulting and disruptive in this class. You will leave now.”
I get up and leave. I do not say, “Fuck you very much,” but I was tempted.
I then wander down the hallways.
Chapter 3: A Place of Learning
I make my way to the high school Library.
I go in, to find an unoccupied table and prepare to do some math work.
On my way to an unoccupied table, I pass by a monochrome girl.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R. Richard
• Release date: Mar 31, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005175719

R. Richard

I'm the co-author, with Sunset Thomas, of Anatomy of An Adult Film.I have 48 novels and over 299 short stories currently published.I spent my early years in the part of Los Angeles known as the South Central. I was known as Whi' Boy, which was sufficient to identify me in that place. I'm a skilled Kung Fu player, using a system that I learned from a Korean I knew only as 'Pak.' It would be easier to tell you the places that Pak wasn't wanted by the police, rather than the places where he was wanted by the police. Pak's Kung Fu system, augmented by some bits and pieces from some Chinese practitioners is quick and effective, or I wouldn't be alive today.My early education was mostly obtained by stealing books from the public library (I always returned them and the Librarian even began to provide me with reading lists.) I did go to high schools, but I never really learned anything there. I eventually graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA, with a degree in mathematics.I work as a Systems Analyst and also make a part of my living as a professional gambler (legal in Nevada.) I write science fiction and erotica. My published novels are:Anatomy of An Adult Film (With Sunset Thomas)1. Second Chance: God Killer2. Second Chance: Sky Pirate3. Second Chance: Scroll Seeker4. Second Chance: King of The Islands5. Second Chance: King of Zaya6. Second Chance: Duke of Averon7. Second Chance: King of Golomon8. Second Chance: King Of The Sky9. Second Chance: Warlord of Ifrequeh10. Second Chance: King of Ariby11. Second Chance: King of Mesodania12. Second Chance: King of Avuls13. Second Chance: King of Kemet14. Second Chance: King of Zorran15. Second Chance: King of Two Worlds16. Second Chance: King of Averon17. Second Chance: King's Duties18. Second Chance: King of The New WorldAdventurer: Simulation ProblemAdventurer: Pannar ProblemA Programmer's GambitAmateur StripperBeach MurdersBondage HouseCorporate Sex SlavesFriday NightGo Naked In The SoftwareGrasshopper WinterInvoluntary NudeLayoffNot A HeroPirates of The KeysSummer of SexThe LakeThe Last Moon DanceThe Nude Adventures of Plain JaneThe Secret Life of Wanda WilsonTails of the Pussycat LoungeTo Keep A JobTopless RestaurantToy WhoresVix: The MarineWayward BoyShort Stories:A Christmas Visit

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Chapter 1: An Attitude Problem

I ride in the back seat of a Board of Education car. There are four of us, in the car.

The scenery, outside the car changes from highway to residential. The residential landscape features neatly trimmed lawns, fronting what appear to be well maintained homes.

The faggot in the front passenger seat turns back and says, Against my recommendation, the Court has decided that James Gann is to be given another chance at a high school education. If you use your chance, perhaps you can make something of yourself.

I don’t respond.

The faggot asks, Well?

I lecture, The school that I previously attended denied me a hearing. Due to the denied hearing, the matter then wound up in front of a Court. The Court then granted me a hearing. My English teacher, at the school that I previously attended, told the Court that I was wasting my time and her time, thus I was expelled. I had presented the Court with a document that I had submitted, for review, to each of my English teacher and a professional organization. My English teacher rejected my submitted document. The professional organization not only accepted my document, but published my document. The publication of my document resulted in acceptance of my ideas and a statement that the math in my document was home made and that I needed more math background. No reference was made to the English language that I used in my document. I made formal request, in a motion to the Court, to force my English teacher to publicly analyze my document and to state why she rejected my document. My English teacher refused to publicly analyze my document and to state why she rejected my document. The Court then dismissed my English teacher as a witness and granted me financial damages. The standard punishment for refusal to answer a Judge’s order is 30 days in jail. I wonder why the Judge simply dismissed my English teacher, rather than sentence her to 30 days in jail. However, the financial damages that the Judge granted me made it possible for me to support myself, given the Social Security money that I was granted after my parents threw me out of their house, due to my trouble with my English teacher. I dared not risk the financial damages money by questioning the dismissal of my English teacher.

The faggot says, What happened was a thing of emotion, not reason.

I lecture, The matter of emotion resulted in my being kicked out of my parent’s house, due to the fuss. Now you tell me that James Gann is to be given another chance at a high school education. If James Gann uses his chance, perhaps he can make something of himself. James Gann’s first chance, resulted in making himself homeless. What I want is to learn useful things. What you want is to peer into my personal life. This far, my approach has resulted in my being published in an adult journal, to positive review. Your approach has resulted in my becoming homeless. Your approach has resulted in a Court of law granting me monetary damages for your lesbian, faggot intrusion into my personal life. Have you not done enough damage already?

The faggot says,