The city's position is that we've come to a stalemate and that we should go to mediation,

'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make
friends with the quietness of our sensations.

If they come to a stalemate, where CMS and EPA can't decide and it's been a couple of years, we'd say (to CMS) 'Move your fence back to the lake,' and we'll let the public back in. But if they keep moving forward, we'll continue working with them.

Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would ho

What is the alternative? ... There is no alternative. The only alternative you can give is stalemate.