the feminist librarian reads

There are all sorts of tears in this trial, and a silence where Steenkamp’s voice might have been. The defense tries to claim even what witnesses said were her shouted words, saying that they were Pistorius’s. He is emotional; he is also, at the moment, fine, and she is dead. The trial is in its early days, and the defense has yet to offer all its doubts. But there is something worth remembering. A man who cries and prays over a dying woman, who can be made physically sick just by hearing about the wounds to her body, can still have murdered her.